Create pom.xml file

Question

Could anayone give me some sugestions on how to create a pom.xml file for a multimodules project, that is build with ant? I need to create this pom.xml file in order to analyze the project with Sonar.

Answer 1

What you put in the pom.xml is going to depend what dependencies you need to use and what plugins you need to run. Check out the Intro to POM to see what it is made up of.

Answer 2

I suggest to follow the instructions from the Sonar documentation. See Analyzing Java Projects:

Project with multiple sources directories

If your non-maven project contains more than one sources directory, you can specify which sources directories to analyse by adding a new section about the Build Helper Maven Plugin into your pom.xml file :

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>[YOUR.ORGANIZATION]</groupId>
  <artifactId>[YOUR.PROJECT]</artifactId>
  <name>[YOUR PROJECT NAME]</name>
  <version>[YOUR PROJECT VERSION]</version>
  <build>
        <sourceDirectory>[YOUR SOURCE DIRECTORY]</sourceDirectory>
        <outputDirectory>[YOUR CLASSES/BIN DIRECTORY</outputDirectory>
        <plugins>
           <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
              <configuration>
                  <source>1.5</source>
                  <target>1.5</target>
                  <excludes>
                      <exclude>**/*.*</exclude>
                  </excludes>
              </configuration>
           </plugin>
           <plugin>
              <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
              <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>1.1</version>
              <executions>
                <execution>
                  <id>add-source</id>
                  <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                  <goals>
                      <goal>add-source</goal>
                  </goals>
                  <configuration>
                      <sources>
                          <source>[YOUR SOURCE DIRECTORY 2]</source>
                          <source>[YOUR SOURCE DIRECTORY 3]</source>
                      </sources>
                  </configuration>
                </execution>
              </executions>
           </plugin>
        </plugins>
  </build>
  <properties>
        <sonar.dynamicAnalysis>false</sonar.dynamicAnalysis>
        <sonar.phase>generate-sources</sonar.phase>
  </properties>
</project>

• Replace the parameters :

  ...

• And execute the maven2 plugin as explained in the installation guide :

  mvn sonar:sonar