Developing OpenCms with Maven (inkl. Eclipse)

Developing OpenCms with Maven

Creating the template of the Opencms-Module is as easy as executing:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://bp-cms-commons.sourceforge.net

Select option 1, set properties and that's all!

See http://bp-cms-commons.sourceforge.net/m2site/infonova/archetypes/opencms-module-archetype/1.0.1/

Pros

• Build with Maven: you can use all Maven Plugins to analyze your code.
• The maven release plugin works also fine.
• Eclipse: create your Eclipse-config with "mvn eclipse:eclipse"
• UnitTests: Real OpenCms Unittest which starts an Opencms instance and reas OpenCms configurations already works.

Limitation

• ArtifactId must be the OpenCms Module Name (This simplify the build-Process). The OpenCms Modulename must be a valid classpath (This is the package where OpenCms search a message.properties at Startup).

Recommendations

For your own Project you should copy the parent pom.xml and modify it (at least SCM and distributionManagement section):

http://bp-cms-commons.sourceforge.net/m2repo/at/infonova/opencms/modules/modules-parent/1.2/modules-parent-1.2.pom