Example Maven Project

Overview

The SLAC CVS contains a sample Maven project called ExampleMavenProject.

Obtaining

To obtain the ExampleMavenProject module, execute this CVS command from a work directory.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd co ExampleMavenProject

This simple project can be used as a template for starting new project or as a platform for experimentation with package imports, scratch Java code, and JAS3 plugins.

Anatomy of the Project

Directories

The directory into which the project was checked-out will be called the "base" directory. By default, it will be called "Example Maven Project".

This directory should contain two subdirectories.

src
test

The src dir is the root area for Java source code.

The test dir contains unit tests. LCSim uses the JUnit test framework.

These directories can be customized or additional ones can be added by modifying the project.xml file. (which is beyond the scope of this tutorial)

Maven Build Files

The ExampleMavenProject module contains the following Maven files, which should be included in a new Maven project.

maven.xml
project.properties
project.xml

The project.xml file is the primary Maven configuration file that lists all the project's meta-information and its dependencies.

The project.properties file is used to set named variables (properties) that determine certain project behavior, such as whether deprecation warnings are shown or the tests are skipped. You can put any custom
maven settings into this file.

For instance, to show Java deprecation messages when compiling, remove the "#" from in front of this line in the project.properties file.

#maven.compile.deprecation=on

maven.xml sets-up some project build defaults.

build.sh is a non-essential helper script demonstrating a project build with a set of maven commands.

Example Code

Two Java files are included within the sample project.

The src/ExampleMavenProject.java is a simple example of a Java source file.

The file test/ExampleMavenProjectTest.java is a very basic test case example that runs the main of a project class with some dummy arguments.

Building

This is the simplest way to build a Maven project.

cd ExampleMavenProject
maven

(It doesn't get much easier than that.)

The maven.xml file sets the default build target to create a jar in the target directory.

ExampleMavenProject-1.0.jar

The "1.0" version number comes from the project.xml file.

ExampleMavenProject also includes a bash build script.

cd ExampleMavenProject
./build.sh

This executes the following command.

maven -Drun.install=$(pwd) -Dmaven.test.skip=true clean jar:install jas:install run:install

This command builds the jar file, skipping tests, and installs the run script into the current directory. It also makes the jar available to JAS3.

This would be the step-by-step build procedure (leaving out the skipping of tests).

1. Build the jar file.

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   maven

2. Create the project run script.

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   maven -Drun.install=$(pwd) run:install

3. Install the jar into the ~/.JAS3/extensions directory, so that JAS3 will automatically load a plugin when it starts up.

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   maven jas:install

Testing

Now, test the run script.

./bin/ExampleMavenProject

This message should be printed to the screen.

ExampleMavenProject - Hello world!

Java files can be added into src or test.

Classes placed here can access packages in the org.lcsim framework and all of its dependencies.

Simply rerun the build command given above to compile any classes that you add.

Using as a Template

First, create a directory for your project at the same level as the ExampleMavenProject directory.

mkdir MyProject
cd MyProject

Then you can copy all the files from ExampleMavenProject into your area, excluding CVS files, with a command like this.

bash
for f in $(find ../ExampleMavenProject -print | grep -v CVS); do cp $f .; done