Question

I have 4 projects: A,B,C And Common.

A,B,C uses both some java files and some XSD/XML files in Common.
A,B,C shouldn’t know about each other, but only Common.
I need to find the Common files(both java an non-java) in each project when testing for example.
How do i link them so i can find the files in eg. A when writing code accessing files?

Here is the POM from A and Common:

 Common:
 <groupId>dk.myCompany.sa</groupId>
 <artifactId>common</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <name>common</name>
 <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

 A
 <groupId>dk.myCompany.sa</groupId>
 <artifactId>A</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>dk.myCompany.sa</groupId>
   <artifactId>common</artifactId>
   <version>0.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>

Answer 1

Any files in the src/main/resources folder of Common will be on the classpath of A, B and C if you add Common as a dependency. So as long as you load your files using getResourceAsStream (see How to really read text file from classpath in Java), they will be accessible.