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

[Kabir Khan]

I've been working on a maven plugin to create extra modules for tests, so what you describe would certainly be possible. The maven plugin/dependency api is pretty nice to work with. Once I've got my forked surefire plugin working, I can take a look if the general consensus is that we should go with something like this
On 17 Dec 2010, at 12:47, David Bosschaert wrote:

> 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
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