Maven Plugins by Fizzed

• Fizzed, Inc.
• Joe Lauer (Twitter: @jjlauer)

Overview

Collection of Maven plugins useful for gettin 'er done.

Watcher (fizzed-watcher-maven-plugin)

Ever wish Maven could run a specific command if any files in your project change? Some IDEs have their own features to do X if a file changes, but they usually don't take your full Maven project file into account. Problem finally solved with the Watcher Plugin for Maven. Add to your Maven project file and fire it up in a new shell. Maven will continuously and recursively watch any number of configured directories and then execute a series of goals if a file change is detected. Just like if you typed it on the command-line! We use it at Fizzed across a bunch of projects, but mainly our web projects -- where we want a full compile run any time our Java code, resources, or templates change. Works especially well from a project parent to watch any of your sub modules too.

To assist in using this plugin to trigger other workflow/plugins, v1.0.6 added a feature to "touch" a file upon successful execution of the maven goal(s).

To use add the following to your POM:

<build>
    <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.fizzed</groupId>
            <artifactId>fizzed-watcher-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.7</version>
            <configuration>
                <touchFile>target/classes/watcher.txt</touchFile>
                <watches>
                    <watch>
                        <directory>core/src/main/java</directory>
                    </watch>
                    <watch>
                        <directory>ninja/src/main/java</directory>
                    </watch>
                </watches>
                <goals>
                    <goal>compile</goal>
                    <goal>process-classes</goal>
                </goals>
                <profiles>
                    <profile>optional-profile-to-activate</profile>
                </profiles>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        ...
    </plugins>
</build>

Each watch entry may also contain include and exclude properties as well as enabling/disabling of recursively watching a directory. Here is an example of watching a directory, but excluding files with a suffix of *.html.

<watch>
    <directory>src/main/java</directory>
    <exclude>*.html</exclude>
</watch>

You may add any number of exclude and include entries. The recursive property can be set to true/false to disable/enable recursively watching a directory.

By default this maven plugin does NOT attach to a lifecycle -- since it is essentially a daemon that runs forever. Usually, you'll run this in a separate shell and run via:

mvn fizzed-watcher:run

Versionizer (fizzed-versionizer-maven-plugin)

Maven plugin that generates a Java source file containing artifact version info. This is compiled and included with the final artifact. An alternative to using Jar manifest files for extracting version info from a library. The directory the file is output to is also added to your project as a directory containing Java sources (and will be automatically picked up during the compile phase).

To use add the following to your POM:

<build>
    <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.fizzed</groupId>
            <artifactId>fizzed-versionizer-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.7</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>generate-version-class</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>generate</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <javaPackage>com.fizzed.examples.helloworld</javaPackage>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions> 
        </plugin>
        ...
    </plugins>
</build>

By default this will generate a Version.java source file in:

${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/versionizer

Play (fizzed-play-maven-plugin)

Maven plugin that does a best-effort compile of PlayFramework 2.x templates (file.scala.html) into a Java source file. This plugin is primarily a hack to make Netbeans function to code complete PlayFramework projects using a pom.xml file.

Templates are generated to ${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/play-templates

To use add the following to your POM:

<build>
    <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.fizzed</groupId>
            <artifactId>fizzed-play-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.7</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>best-effort-play-template-compiler</id>
                    <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>template-compile</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        ...
    </plugins>
</build>

License

Copyright (C) 2015 Fizzed, Inc.

This work is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for details.