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

[Carlo de Wolf]

What I also find weird is that the module.xml is in build.
Why not in the maven module needing that module.xml?

Carlo

On 12/17/2010 12:47 PM, 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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