Myeclipse&maven Project Management Tutorial: Creating a Java Maven Dependent project (reprinted)

This tutorial shows you how to create a generic Java/maven project from a MyEclipse Web project, or any other MAVEN project. These steps include the creation of the foundation and the use of MAVEN dependencies. You will learn to:

Create a MAVEN utility project to add dependencies for a Project add utility as a dependency relationship

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　　1. Create a MAVEN utility project

Maven utility projects will be consumed by existing MAVEN projects.

(1) Create a MAVEN project that supports consuming the projects created in this tutorial.

(2) Select File>new>project, enter the MAVEN type in the Search field, select the MAVEN project, and click Next.

　　

Create a new MAVEN project

(3) Select the Create a simple project check box, and then click Next.

(4) Enter the group and artifact IDs, and the project name, then click Finish.

　　

Project configuration

　　2. Adding dependencies for a utility project

(1) Right-click the utility and select Maven4myeclipse>add Dependency.

(2) commons-logging type or other dependencies in Enter ... Search dependency fields.

　　

Select a dependency

(3) Select the dependency and click OK.

(4) Expand the Utility project, right-click the Pom.xml file and select Run As>maven install file to the local repository.

　　

Installing files to a local repository

When the console displays "Build successful", the utility project is available for other projects to reference.

　　

A successful build

　　3. Adding utility projects as a dependency

(1) Right-click Consuming project and select Maven4myeclipse>add Dependency.

(2) Enter field, type Com.mycompany, or group ID when you create a utility project.

　　

Add a utility project as a consumer-dependent project

(3) Select the utility item and click OK. The dependencies are added to the pom.xml file of the consuming project.

(4) Right-click Consuming Project's pom.xml file and select Run As>maven Build.

　　

MAVEN build Configuration

(5) Select the target, edit the other necessary build configurations, and click Run. The console will see a build success message.

　　Note : If you click the Select button to specify that the target list of targets is empty, then you need to enable the full repository index. To do this, first open the Maven repositories view and expand global repositories. Right-click Central, and then select Start Full index. It takes a few minutes for the index to update.

　　

Full Library index Enabled

Myeclipse&maven Project Management Tutorial: Creating a Java Maven Dependent project (reprinted)