Question

I have two projects in eclipse:

1. framework: A general library used in several projects.
2. client: A project that uses framework.

client is quite large, possibly larger than framework at this point. I am using client as sort of a test fixture for framework. I want to make a few changes in framework and test them in client. Currently, I have to do a full build of framework, install it into a maven repo, and then rebuild client.

Is there a way to just have client point to framework directly on my local disk? Any other hints for developing in such a situation (ie is the a better way)?

Answer 1

You can specify dependencies from the local disk using <systemPath> like so:

<dependency>
    <groupId>example.logging</groupId>
     <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
     <version>1.0.0</version>
     <scope>system</scope>
     <systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/commons-logging.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>

I’m not sure if you can point to a directory that has a pom in it, but at least you don’t have to deploy it into maven.