(also posted on maven-users)
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on inheritance of the elements in pom.xml as relates to resource processing and the WAR plugin.
The documentation for the pom [1] has resources listed under "Elements in the POM that are merged". Some experimentation on my local poms against maven 2.2.1 don't appear to exhibit that behavior. What I see is it looks like is inherited by child projects (in a multi-module build), but that if any of those projects have their own block it replaces the parent, not merged. Is that correct?
Example:
parent-pom.xml
|
|-> child-pom.xml
The following works as I'd expect, with files in dev not included in a final WAR.
parent-pom.xml
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>${dev-config.path}</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
<resources>
child-pom.xml
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>${dev-config.path}</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/rules</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/test/rules</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
The following change to the child (removing any declaration for src/main/resources) appears to result in src/main/resource not being considered during process-resources, not inheriting from the parent as I'd expected.
child-pom.xml
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/rules</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/test/rules</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
[1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html s