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:-)  Thanks. -M

On 10/21/2010 11:22 AM, Philip Ogren wrote:
> Marshall,
>
> Thank you for this helpful hint.  I was just now following up on Richard's
> tips and was trying to figure out how to get Eclipse to recognize the new
> source directory.  I think I now have a working solution!
>
> I will send it around shortly.
>
> Philip
>
> On 10/21/2010 9:03 AM, Marshall Schor wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I agree - lots of source generation tooling generates to
>> target/generated-sources ...
>>
>> This has the advantage that the normal "clean" operation removes these.
>>
>> Using m2eclipse Eclipse plugin for maven - by default it will "miss" these
>> generated directories the first time you import a project as a Maven project.
>> However, the recovery is simple, and only needs doing once: right click the
>> project and select Maven ->  update project configuration.
>>
>> -Marshall
>>
>> On 10/21/2010 2:30 AM, Richard Matthias Eckart de Castilho wrote:
>>> Hello Philip,
>>>
>>>> So, I would much rather have the generated
>>>> code put into a different source folder that has only generated code in
>>>> it.  Something like src/generated/java or src/output/java or whatever
>>>> the convention is.  My question is whether or not there is a convention
>>>> and if so could someone point me to a project that does something like this?
>>> my understanding is that target/generated-sources/<toolname>  is appropriate
>>> - I've seen this in a couple of instances. This is also what is mentioned in
>>> the NetBeans wiki on Maven best practices:
>>>
>>>> If your project contains generated source roots that need to appear in the
>>>> project's source path, please make sure that the Maven plugin generating
>>>> the sources generates them in the target/generated-sources/<toolname> 
>>>> directory where<toolname>  is folder specific to the Maven plugin used and
>>>> acts as source root for the generated sources. Most common maven plugins
>>>> currently follow this pattern in the default configuration.
>>> (Source: http://wiki.netbeans.org/MavenBestPractices#Open_existing_project)
>>>
>>> There is also a Maven plugin which allows to add folders to the Maven source
>>> folders list. This may help if e.g. Eclipse does not properly pick up the
>>> folder:
>>>
>>> http://mojo.codehaus.org/build-helper-maven-plugin/usage.html
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Richard
>> >
>>
>>
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