Package CICS resources outside src/main/resources

[holgerknoche]

We use a custom Maven plugin to generate program definitions from annotations in the Java classes. Being generated, we would like to store them somewhere in target/generated-resources. However, the plugin only allows to specify resource paths in src/main/resources. Could we get an option to also include CICS resources in an arbitrary location inside the project (or at least in target/generated-resources)?

[ind1go]

Thanks for raising this issue.

Your custom Maven plugin, is that generating program definitions that could not be generated using the @CICSProgram annotation? Just checking that you are aware of that option and it's not available to you for some reason.

[holgerknoche]

Thanks for your comment! As far as I know, the @CICSProgram annotation only works for EARs and WARs deployed to Liberty, but not for OSGi bundles in a JVM server, which is what we mainly use.

[ind1go]

Ah yes, I understand. Using @CICSProgram for OSGi bundles is announced in CICS TS 6.1, which will be available soon.

We'll look further into this.

[ind1go]

Just to check I have the correct understanding, do you mean the src/main/bundleParts directory (instead of src/main/resources)? Have you been able to use the bundlePartsDirectory property?

[holgerknoche]

Yes, that's the one. The bundlePartsDirectory property does not really help here, because it is restricted to paths within src/main. Unlike target, these paths are usually under version control, and since we don't want to commit our generated artifacts, we have to manually exclude them.