Netbeans RCP Application with Maven

[Iwud H8u]

Hi,

I am trying to build a maven based modular application based on the Netbeans
RCP. The new 'Maven Project' wizard is really useful in creating the
application and the modules for this. However, I am having issues with how
Maven and NetBeans resolve dependencies.

I have read the information on
http://mojo.codehaus.org/nbm-maven-plugin/index.html about Maven transitive
and Netbeans runtime dependencies and I believe I've configured my project
correctly, however I still get BUILD FAILURE messages when building my
application.

The structure of my project is somewhat like this.

RCPApplication (Maven-nbm-application packaging)
--- Module 1 (Maven nbm packaging)
--- Module 2 (Maven nbm packaging) <--- dependency on Module 1
--- Module 3 (Maven nbm packagin) < --- dependency on Module 2

Of these, modules 1 and 3 use Hibernate and I have added Hibernate (and all
transitive dependencies) to Module 1 as regular Maven dependencies. However
I would like Module 3 to be able to use the Hibernate libraries packaged in
Module 1 without having to declare them again. I know for a pure Netbeans
application, I could have used a Wrapper module to share the Hibernate
libraries between Modules 1 and 3. But how do I set this up when I am using
Maven to generate a Netbeans RCP without having to declare the dependencies
in Maven once in each module?

I am slightly at my wits end now with messages like ----> '[WARNING] There
are transitive dependencies that were not included in the module's
Class-Path because they were resolved as part of another NetBeans module.'
.... :-(

Any help/suggestions will be gladly appreciated!

Cheers,
Jay
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[mkleint]

have you defined the hibernate packages as public in module1? that's
done by the
configuration/publicPackages element in the plugin's pom section?
Then in module2 and module3 you only need to depend on module1, not the
hibernate jars directly.

Milos

Iwud H8u wrote:

[Iwud H8u]

Hi Milos,

I have since read the 'Definitive guide to Netbeans platform' book and
decided that it was more useful to separate out my dependencies into a
separate module. So now I have a 'dependencies-module' which both 'module1'
and 'module3' should be able to use.

I then used your suggestion (as I understood it to include the packages
under hibernate' as 'public packages in the the 'manifest.mf' file in the
location ---> Other sources/nbm/manifest.mf in my maven module. However this
still does not resolve my problem. Is this where the listing of public
packages needs to go?

Thanks so much,
Jay


mkleint-3 wrote:

[mkleint]

Iwud H8u wrote: