[jboss-as7-dev] Automatically generate AS7 module.xml files from maven poms?

[David Bosschaert]

Hi all,

Today I was looking at a module.xml somewhere down
 
http://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/blob/master/build/src/main/resources/modules
and found out that a problem I was facing was caused by a dependency in 
there being out of sync with the dependencies of the pom that defines 
the original module.

So I was thinking, since there is a 1-1 mapping between the poms and 
modules would it make sense to automatically generate the module.xml 
files from the poms rather then having them in git. I realize that there 
is extra information in some cases that needs to go into the module.xml 
file but that information could be added to the pom in some form [1]. 
Otherwise this might become a bit of a maintenance nightmare IMHO...

Or is this already happening somewhere in a way that I'm not aware of?

Cheers,

David

[1] The maven-bundle-plugin does something similar for OSGi bundles: 
http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html