Authors and contributing
The authors of this document are:
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Mikolaj Izdebski, Red Hat
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Nicolas Mailhot, JPackage Project
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Stanislav Ochotnicky, Red Hat
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Ville Skyttä, JPackage Project
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Michal Srb, Red Hat
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Michael Simacek, Red Hat
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Marián Konček, Red Hat
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Abstract
This document aims to help developers create and maintain Java packages in Fedora. It does not supersede or replace Java Packaging Guidelines, but rather aims to document tools and techniques used for packaging Java software on Fedora.
1. Introduction
Clean Java packaging has historically been a daunting task. Lack of any standard addressing the physical location of files on the system combined with the common use of licensing terms that only allow free redistribution of key components as a part of a greater ensemble has let to the systematic release of self-sufficient applications with built-in copies of external components.
As a consequence applications are only tested with the versions of the components they bundle, a complete Java system suffers from endless duplication of the same modules, and integrating multiple parts can be a nightmare since they are bound to depend on the same elements - only with different and subtly incompatible versions (different requirements, different bugs). Any security or compatibility upgrade must be performed for each of those duplicated elements.
This problem is compounded by the current practice of folding extensions in the JVM itself after a while; an element that could safely be embedded in a application will suddenly conflict with a JVM part and cause subtle failures.
It is not surprising then that complex Java systems tend to fossilize very quickly, with the cost of maintaining dependencies current growing too high so fast people basically give up on it.
This situation is incompatible with typical fast-evolving Linux platform. To attain the aim of user- and administrator-friendly RPM packaging of Java applications a custom infrastructure and strict packaging rules had to be evolved.
1.1. Basic introduction to packaging, reasons, problems, rationale
This section includes basic introduction to Java packaging world to people coming from different backgrounds. The goal is to understand language of all groups involved. If you are a Java developer coming into contact with RPM packaging for the first time start reading Java developer section. On the other hand if you are coming from RPM packaging background an introduction to Java world is probably a better starting point.
It should be noted that especially in this section we might sacrifice correctness for simplicity.
1.2. For Packagers
Java is a programming language which is usually compiled into bytecode for JVM (Java Virtual Machine). For more details about the JVM and bytecode specification see JVM documentation.
1.2.1. Example Java Project
To better illustrate various parts of Java packaging we will dissect simple Java Hello world
application.
Java sources are usually organized using directory hierarchies.
Shared directory hierarchy creates a namespace called package
in Java terminology.
To understand naming mechanisms of Java packages
see Java package naming conventions.
Let’s create a simple hello world application that will execute following steps when run:
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Ask for a name.
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Print out
Hello World from
and the name from previous step.
To illustrate certain points we artificially complicate things by creating:
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Input
class used only for input of text from terminal. -
Output
class used only for output on terminal. -
HelloWorldApp
class used as main application.
$ find .
.
./Makefile
./src
./src/org
./src/org/fedoraproject
./src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld
./src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/output
./src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/output/Output.java
./src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/input
./src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/input/Input.java
./src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/HelloWorld.java
In this project all packages are under src/
directory hierarchy.
package org.fedoraproject.helloworld;
// import Input class from org.fedoraproject.helloworld.input package
import org.fedoraproject.helloworld.input.Input;
// import Output class from org.fedoraproject.helloworld.output package
import org.fedoraproject.helloworld.output.Output;
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.print("What is your name?: ");
String reply = Input.getInput();
Output.output(reply);
}
}
org/fedoraproject/helloworld/input/Input.java
org/fedoraproject/helloworld/output/Output.java
org/fedoraproject/helloworld/HelloWorld.java
Although the directory structure of our package is hierarchical, there is no real parent-child relationship between packages. Each package is therefore seen as independent. The above example makes use of three separate packages:
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org.fedoraproject.helloworld.input
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org.fedoraproject.helloworld.output
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org.fedoraproject.helloworld
Environment setup consists of two main parts:
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Telling JVM which Java class contains
main()
method. -
Adding required JAR files on JVM classpath.
The sample project can be compiled to a bytecode by Java compiler.
Java compiler can be typically invoked from command line by command javac
.
javac $(find -name '*.java')
For every .java
file corresponding .class
file will be created.
The .class
files contain Java bytecode which is meant to be executed on JVM.
One could put invocation of javac
to Makefile and simplify the compilation a bit.
It might be sufficient for such a simple project, but it would quickly become hard to build more complex projects with this approach.
Java world knows several high-level build systems which can highly simplify building of Java projects.
Among others, probably the most known are Apache Maven and Apache Ant.
Having our application split across many .class
files would not be very practical, so those .class
files are assembled into ZIP files with specific layout and called JAR files.
Most commonly these special ZIP files have .jar
suffix, but other variations exist (.war
, .ear
).
They contain:
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Compiled bytecode of our project.
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Additional metadata stored in
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
file. -
Resource files such as images or localisation data.
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Optionaly the source code of our project (called source JAR then).
They can also contain additional bundled software which is something we do not want to have in packages. You can inspect the contents of given JAR file by extracting it. That can be done with following command:
jar -xf something.jar
The detailed description of JAR file format is in the JAR File Specification.
The classpath is a way of telling JVM where to look for user classes and 3rd party libraries.
By default, only current directory is searched, all other locations need to be specified explicitly by setting up CLASSPATH
environment variable, or via -cp
(-classpath
) option of the Java Virtual Machine.
java -cp /usr/share/java/log4j.jar:/usr/share/java/junit.jar mypackage/MyClass.class
CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/log4j.jar:/usr/share/java/junit.jar java mypackage/MyClass.class
Please note that two JAR files are separated by colon in a classpath definition.
See official documentation for more information about classpath. |
Classic compiled applications use dynamic linker to find dependencies (linked libraries), whereas dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby, Lua have predefined directories where they search for imported modules. JVM itself has no embedded knowledge of installation paths and thus no automatic way to resolve dependencies of Java projects. This means that all Java applications have to use wrapper shell scripts to setup the environment before invoking the JVM and running the application itself. Note that this is not necessary for libraries.
1.2.2. Build System Identification
The build system used by upstream can be usually identified by looking at their configuration files, which reside in project directory structure, usually in its root or in specialized directories with names such as build
or make
.
Build managed by Apache Maven is configured by an XML file that is by default named pom.xml
.
In its simpler form it usually looks like this:
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example.myproject</groupId>
<artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>myproject</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
It describes project’s build process in a declarative way, without explicitly specifying exact steps needed to compile sources and assemble pieces together. It also specifies project’s dependencies which are usually the main point of interest for packagers. Another important feature of Maven that packagers should know about are plugins. Plugins extend Maven with some particular functionality, but unfortunately some of them may get in the way of packaging and need to be altered or removed. There are RPM macros provided to facilitate modifying Maven dependencies and plugins.
Apache Ant is also configured by an XML file. It is by convention named build.xml
and in its simple form it looks like this:
<project name="MyProject" default="dist" basedir=".">
<property name="src" location="src"/>
<property name="build" location="build"/>
<property name="dist" location="dist"/>
<target name="init" description="Create build directory">
<mkdir dir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init"
description="Compile the source">
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile"
description="Generate jar">
<mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
<jar jarfile="${dist}/myproject.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="clean" description="Clean build files">
<delete dir="${build}"/>
<delete dir="${dist}"/>
</target>
</project>
Ant build file consists mostly of targets, which are collections of steps needed to accomplish intended task.
They usually depend on each other and are generally similar to Makefile targets.
Available targets can be listed by invoking ant -p
in project directory containing build.xml
file.
If the file is named differently than build.xml
you have to tell Ant which file should be used by using -f
option with the name of the actual build file.
Some projects that use Apache Ant also use Apache Ivy to simplify dependency handling.
Ivy is capable of resolving and downloading artifacts from Maven repositories which are declaratively described in XML.
Project usually contains one or more ivy.xml
files specifying the module Maven coordinates and its dependencies.
Ivy can also be used directly from Ant build files.
To detect whether the project you wish to package is using Apache Ivy, look for files named ivy.xml
or nodes in the ivy
namespace in project’s build file.
While unlikely, it is still possible that you encounter a project whose build is managed by plain old Makefiles.
They contain a list of targets which consist of commands (marked with tab at the begining of line) and are invoked by make
target or simply make
to run the default target.
1.2.3. Quiz for Packagers
At this point you should have enough knowledge about Java to start packaging. If you are not able to answer following questions return back to previous sections or ask experienced packagers for different explanations of given topics.
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What is the difference between JVM and Java?
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What is a
CLASSPATH
environment variable and how can you use it? -
Name two typical Java build systems and how you can identify which one is being used
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What is the difference between
java
andjavac
comands? -
What are contents of a typical
JAR
file? -
What is a
pom.xml
file and what information it contains? -
How would you handle packaging software that contains
lib/junit4.jar
inside source tarball? -
Name at least three methods for bundling code in Java projects
1.3. For Java Developers
Packaging Java software has specifics which we will try to cover in this section aimed at Java developers who are already familiar with Java language, JVM, classpath handling, Maven, pom.xml
file structure and dependencies.
Instead we will focus on basic packaging tools and relationships between Java and RPM world. One of the most important questions is: What is the reason to package software in RPM (or other distribution-specific formats). There are several reasons for it, among others:
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Unified way of installation of software for users of distribution regardless of upstream projects
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Verification of authenticity of software packages by signing them
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Simplified software updates
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Automatic handling of dependencies for users
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Common filesystem layout across distribution enforced by packaging standards
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Ability to administer, monitor and query packages installed on several machines through unified interfaces
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Distribution of additional metadata with the software itself such as licenses used, homepage for the project, changelogs and other information that users or administrators can find useful
1.3.1. Example RPM Project
RPM uses spec
files as recipes for building software packages.
We will use it to package example project created in previous section.
If you did not read it you do not need to; the file listing is available here and the rest is not necessary for this section.
Makefile
src
src/org
src/org/fedoraproject
src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld
src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/output
src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/output/Output.java
src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/input
src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/input/Input.java
src/org/fedoraproject/helloworld/HelloWorld.java
We packed the project directory into file helloworld.tar.gz
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# Comments start with hash sign. Caution: macros in comments are still
# expanded, which can lead to unexpected results. To stop macro from expanding,
# double its percent sign (e.g. %%mvn_install)
# First part usually consists of metadata such as package name, version, and
# much more
Name: helloworld
Version: 1.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: This is a minimal spec file example
License: GPLv2+
# Homepage URL of the project
URL: http://www.fedoraproject.org
# Our source archive. %{name} expands to 'helloworld' so the resulting
# tarball name would be 'helloworld.tar.gz'.
Source0: %{name}.tar.gz
# Packages that contain only architecture independent files, such as shell
# scripts or regular Java programs (not JNI libraries), should be marked as 'noarch'
BuildArch: noarch
# Project's build time dependency. We don't really need JUnit, it just
# serves as and example
BuildRequires: junit
%description
Very short description since we have nothing to say.
%prep
# section for preparation of sources, applying patches
# or other things which can be done before running the build
# The macro setup is used to unpack sources
%setup -q
%build
# Section for compiling and generally assembling the final pieces.
# Our Makefile builds the project JAR file
%make_build
%install
# Installation into directory prepared by RPM expressed as %{buildroot}
install -p -m 644 helloworld.jar %{buildroot}%{_javadir}/helloworld.jar
# We use macro %jpackage_script to generate wrapper script for our JAR
# Will be explained in later sections
%jpackage_script org.fedoraproject.helloworld.HelloWorld "" "" %{name} helloworld true
# List of files that this package installs on the system
%files
%{_javadir}/helloworld.jar
%{_bindir}/helloworld
%changelog
* Tue Mar 19 2013 Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@redhat.com> - 1.0-1
- This is first version
RPM spec
files contain several basic sections:
- Header, which contains:
-
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Package metadata such as its name, version, release, license, …
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A
Summary
with basic one-line summary of package contents. -
Package source URLs denoted with
Source0
toSourceN
directives.-
Source files can then be referenced by
%SOURCE0
to%SOURCEn
, which expand to actual paths to given files. -
In practice, the source URL shouldn’t point to a file in our filesystem, but to an upstream release on the web.
-
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Patches - using
Patch0
toPatchN
. -
Project dependencies.
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Build dependencies specified by
BuildRequires
, which need to be determined manually. -
Run time dependencies will be detected automatically. If it fails, you have to specify them with
Requires
. -
More information on this topic can be found in the dependency handling section.
-
-
%description
-
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Few sentences about the project and its uses. It will be displayed by package management software.
-
%prep
section-
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Unpacks the sources using
setup -q
or manually if needed. -
If a source file doesn’t need to be extracted, it can be copied to build directory by
cp -p %SOURCE0 .
. -
Apply patches with
%patch X
, whereX
is the number of patch you want to apply. (You usually need the patch index, so it would be:%patch 0 -p1
).
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%build
section-
-
Contains project compilation instructions. Usually consists of calling the projects build system such as Ant, Maven or Make.
-
- Optional
%check
section -
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Runs projects integration tests. Unit test are usually run in
%build
section, so if there are no integration tests available, this section is omitted.
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%install
section-
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Copies built files that are supposed to be installed into
%{buildroot}
directory, which represents target filesystem’s root.
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%files
section-
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Lists all files, that should be installed from
%{buildroot}
to target system. -
Documentation files are prefixed by
%doc
and are taken from build directory instead of buildroot. -
Directories that this package should own are prefixed with
%dir
.
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%changelog
-
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Contains changes to this spec file (not upstream).
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Has prescribed format. To prevent mistakes in format, it is advised to use tool such as
rpmdev-bumpspec
from package rpmdevtools to append new changelog entries instead of editing it by hand.
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To build RPM from this spec
file save it in your current directory and run rpmbuild
:
$ rpmbuild -bb helloworld.spec
If everything worked OK, this should produce RPM file ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/helloworld-1.0-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm
.
You can use rpm -i
or dnf install
commands to install this package and it will add /usr/share/java/helloworld.jar
and /usr/bin/helloworld
wrapper script to your system.
Please note that this specfile is simplified and lacks some additional parts, such as license installation.
Paths and filenames might be slightly different depending on your architecture and distribution. Output of the commands will tell you exact paths. |
As you can see to build RPM files you can use rpmbuild
command.
It has several other options, which we will cover later on.
Other than building binary RPMs (-bb
), rpmbuild
can also be used to:
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build only source RPMs (SRPMs), the packages containing source files which can be later build to RPMs (option
-bs
) -
build all, both binary and source RPMs (option
-ba
)
See rpmbuild
's manual page for all available options.
1.3.2. Querying repositories
Fedora comes with several useful tools which can provide great assistance in getting information from RPM repositories.
dnf repoquery
is a tool for querying information from RPM repositories.
Maintainers of Java packages might typically query the repository for information like "which package contains the Maven artifact groupId:artifactId
".
$ dnf repoquery --whatprovides 'mvn(commons-io:commons-io)'
apache-commons-io-1:2.4-9.fc19.noarch
The example above shows that one can get to commons-io:commons-io
artifact by installing apache-commons-io
package.
By default, dnf repoquery
uses all enabled repositories in DNF configuration, but it is possible to explicitly specify any other repository.
For example following command will query only Rawhide repository:
$ dnf repoquery --available --disablerepo \* --enablerepo rawhide --whatprovides 'mvn(commons-io:commons-io)'
apache-commons-io-1:2.4-10.fc20.noarch
Sometimes it may be useful to just list all the artifacts provided by given package:
$ dnf repoquery --provides apache-commons-io
apache-commons-io = 1:2.4-9.fc19
jakarta-commons-io = 1:2.4-9.fc19
mvn(commons-io:commons-io) = 2.4
mvn(org.apache.commons:commons-io) = 2.4
osgi(org.apache.commons.io) = 2.4.0
Output above means that package apache-commons-io
provides two Maven artifacts: previously mentioned commons-io:commons-io
and org.apache.commons:commons-io
.
In this case the second one is just an alias for same JAR file. See section about artifact aliases for more information on this topic.
Another useful tool is rpm
.
It can do a lot of stuff, but most importantly it can replace dnf repoquery
if one only needs to query local RPM database.
Only installed packages, or local .rpm
files, can be queried with this tool.
Common use case could be checking which Maven artifacts provide locally built packages.
$ rpm -qp --provides simplemaven-1.0-2.fc21.noarch.rpm
mvn(com.example:simplemaven) = 1.0
mvn(simplemaven:simplemaven) = 1.0
simplemaven = 1.0-2.fc21
1.3.3. Quiz for Java Developers
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How would you build a binary RPM if you were given a source RPM?
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What is most common content of
Source0
spec
file tag? -
What is the difference between
Version
andRelease
tags? -
How would you apply a patch in RPM?
-
Where on filesystem should JAR files go?
-
What is the format of RPM changelog or what tool would you use to produce it?
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How would you install an application that needs certain layout (think
ANT_HOME
) while honoring distribution filesystem layout guidelines? -
How would you generate script for running a application with main class
org.project.MainClass
which depends oncommons-lang
jar?
2. Java Specifics in Fedora for Users and Developers
This section contains information about default Java implementation in Fedora, switching between different Java runtime environments and about few useful tools which can be used during packaging / development.
2.1. Java implementation in Fedora
Fedora ships with an open-source reference implementation of Java Standard Edition called OpenJDK. OpenJDK provides Java Runtime Environment for Java applications and set of development tools for Java developers.
From users point of view, java
command is probably the most interesting.
It is a Java application launcher which spawns Java Virtual Machine (JVM), loads specified .class
file and executes its main method.
Here is an example how to run sample Java project from section Example Java Project:
$ java org/fedoraproject/helloworld/HelloWorld.class
OpenJDK provides a lot of interesting tools for Java developers:
-
javac
is a Java compiler which translates source files to Java bytecode, which can be later interpreted by JVM. -
jdb
is a simple command-line debugger for Java applications. -
javadoc
is a tool for generating Javadoc documentation. -
javap
can be used for disassembling Java class files.
2.1.1. Switching between different Java implementations
Users and developers may want to have multiple Java environments installed at the same time.
It is possible in Fedora, but only one of them can be default Java environment in system.
Fedora uses alternatives
for switching between different installed JREs/JDKs.
# alternatives --config java There are 3 programs which provide 'java'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- 1 java-17-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-17.0.2.0.8-1.fc35.x86_64/bin/java) *+ 2 java-11-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.14.1.1-5.fc35.x86_64/bin/java) 3 java-latest-openjdk.x86_64 (/usr/lib/jvm/java-18-openjdk-18.0.1.0.10-1.rolling.fc35.x86_64/bin/java) Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number:
Example above shows how to chose default Java environment. java
command will then point to the Java implementation provided by given JRE.
See |
Developers may want to use Java compiler from different JDK.
This can be achieved with alternatives --config javac
.
2.2. Building classpath with build-classpath
Most of the Java application needs to specify classpath in order to work correctly. Fedora contains several tools which make working with classpaths easier.
build-classpath
- this tool takes JAR filenames or artifact coordinates as arguments and translates them to classpath-like string.
See the following example:
$ build-classpath log4j junit org.ow2.asm:asm
/usr/share/java/log4j.jar:/usr/share/java/junit.jar:/usr/share/java/objectweb-asm4/asm.jar
log4j
corresponds to log4j.jar
stored in %{_javadir}
.
If the JAR file is stored in subdirectory under %{_javadir}
, it is neccessary to pass subdirectory/jarname
as an argument to build-classpath
.
Example:
$ build-classpath httpcomponents/httpclient.jar
/usr/share/java/httpcomponents/httpclient.jar
2.3. Building JAR repository with build-jar-repository
Another tool is build-jar-repository
.
It can fill specified directory with symbolic / hard links to specified JAR files.
Similarly to build-classpath
, JARs can be identified by their names or artifact coordintes.
$ build-jar-repository my-repo log4j httpcomponents/httpclient junit:junit
$ ls -l my-repo/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 msrb msrb 45 Oct 29 10:39 [httpcomponents][httpclient].jar -> /usr/share/java/httpcomponents/httpclient.jar
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 msrb msrb 25 Oct 29 10:39 [junit:junit].jar -> /usr/share/java/junit.jar
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 msrb msrb 25 Oct 29 10:39 [log4j].jar -> /usr/share/java/log4j.jar
Similar command rebuild-jar-repository
can be used to rebuild JAR repository previously built by build-jar-repository
.
See man rebuild-jar-repository
for more information.
build-classpath-directory
is a small tool which can be used to build classpath string from specified directory.
$ build-classpath-directory /usr/share/java/xstream
/usr/share/java/xstream/xstream-benchmark.jar:/usr/share/java/xstream/xstream.jar
:/usr/share/java/xstream/xstream-hibernate.jar
3. Java Specifics in Fedora for Packagers
3.1. Directory Layout
This section describes most of directories used for Java packaging. Each directory is named in RPM macro form, which shows how it should be used in RPM spec files. Symbolic name is followed by usual macro expansion (i.e. physical directory location in the file system) and short description.
%{_javadir}
—/usr/share/java
-
Directory that holds all JAR files that do not contain or use native code and do not depend on a particular Java standard version. JAR files can either be placed directly in this directory or one of its subdirectories. Often packages create their own subdirectories there, in this case subdirectory name should match package name.
%{_jnidir}
—/usr/lib/java
-
Directory where architecture-specific JAR files are installed. In particular, JAR files containing or using native code (Java Native Interface, JNI) should be installed there.
%{_javadocdir}
—/usr/share/javadoc
-
Root directory where all Java API documentation (Javadoc) is installed. Each source package usually creates a single subdirectory containing aggregated Javadocs for all binary packages it produces.
%{_mavenpomdir}
—/usr/share/maven-poms
-
Directory where Project Object Model (POM) files used by Apache Maven are installed. Each POM must have name that strictly corresponds to JAR file in
%{_javadir}
or%{_jnidir}
. %{_ivyxmldir}
—/usr/share/ivy-xmls
-
Directory where
ivy.xml
files used by Apache Ivy are installed. Each XML must have name that strictly corresponds to JAR file in%{_javadir}
or%{_jnidir}
.
%{_jvmdir}
—/usr/lib/jvm
-
Root directory where different Java Virtual Machines (JVM) are installed. Each JVM creates a subdirectory, possibly with several alternative names implemented with symbolic links. Directories prefixed with
java
contain Java Development Kit (JDK), while directories which names start withjre
hold Java Runtime Environment (JRE). %{_jvmsysconfdir}
—/etc/jvm
%{_jvmcommonsysconfdir}
—/etc/jvm-common
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Directories containing configuration files for Java Virtual Machines (JVM).
%{_jvmprivdir}
—/usr/lib/jvm-private
%{_jvmlibdir}
—/usr/lib/jvm
%{_jvmdatadir}
—/usr/share/jvm
%{_jvmcommonlibdir}
—/usr/lib/jvm-common
%{_jvmcommondatadir}
—/usr/share/jvm-common
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Directories containing implementation files of Java Virtual Machines (JVM). Describing them in detail is out of scope for this document. Purpose of each directory is commented briefly in
macros.jpackage
file in/etc/rpm
. More detailed description can be found in JPackage policy. %{_javaconfdir}
—/etc/java
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Directory containing Java configuration files. In particular it contains main Java configuration file —
java.conf
.
3.2. JAR File Identification
Complex Java applications usually consist of multiple components. Each component can have multiple implementations, called artifacts. Artifacts in Java context are usually JAR files, but can also be WAR files or any other kind of file.
There are multiple incompatible ways of identifying (naming) Java artifacts and each build system often encourages usage of specific naming scheme. This means that Linux distributions also need to allow each artifact to be located using several different identifiers, possible using different schemes. On the other hand it is virtually impossible to every naming scheme, so there are some simplifications.
This chapter describes artifact different ways to identify and locate artifacts in system repository.
3.2.1. Relative paths
JAR artifacts are installed in one of standard directory trees.
Usually this is either %{_javadir}
(/usr/share/java
) or %{_jnidir}
(/usr/lib/java
).
The simplest way of identifying artifacts is using their relative path from one of standard locations. All artifact can be identified this way because each artifacts has a unique file name. Each path identifying artifact will be called artifact path in this document.
To keep artifact paths simpler and more readable, extension can be omitted if it is equal to jar
.
For non-JAR artifacts extension cannot be omitted and must be retained.
Additionally, if artifact path points to a directory then it represents all artifacts contained in this directory. This allows a whole set of related artifacts to be referenced easily by specifying directory name containing all of them.
If the same artifact path has valid expansions in two different root directories then it is unspecified which artifacts will be located.
3.2.2. Artifact specification
As noted in previous section, every artifact can be uniquely identified by its file path. However this is not always the preferred way of artifact identification.
Modern Java build systems provide a way of identifying artifacts with an abstract identifier, or more often, a pair of identifiers. The first if usually called group ID or organization ID while the second is just artifact ID. This pair of identifiers will be called artifact coordinates in this document. Besides group ID and artifact ID, artifact coordinates may also include other optional information about artifact, such as extension, classifier and version.
In Linux distributions it is important to stay close to upstreams providing software being packaged, so the ability to identify artifacts in the same way as upstream does is very important from the packaging point of view.
Every artifact can optionally be identified by artifact coordinates assigned during package build.
Packages built with Maven automatically use this feature, but all other packages, even these built with pure javac
, can use this feature too (see description of %mvn_artifact
and %add_maven_depmap
macros).
3.2.3. Aliases
Aliases working in two ways:
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Symlinks for paths
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Additional mappings for artifact specifications
In the real world the same project can appear under different names as it was evolving or released differently. Therefore other projects may refer to those alternative names instead of using the name currently prefered by upstream.
Artifact aliases
XMvn provides a way to attach multiple artifact coordinates to a single artifact.
Dependent projects that use alternative coordinates can then be built without the need to patch their POMs or alter the build by other means.
It will also generate virtual provides for the alias, so it can be also used in Requires
and BuildRequires
.
Creating an alias is achieved by %mvn_alias
macro.
# com.example.foo:bar (the actual artifact existing in the project) will also
# be available as com.example.foo:bar-all
%mvn_alias com.example.foo:bar com.example.foo:bar-all
# You don't need to repeat the part of coordinates that stays the same
# (groupID in this case)
%mvn_alias com.example.foo:bar :bar-all
# You can specify multiple aliases at once
%mvn_alias com.example.foo:bar :bar-all :bar-lib
# The macro supports several shortcuts to generate multiple alisaes.
# Braces - {} - capture their content, which can then be referenced in the
# alias part with @N, where N is the index of the capture group.
# * acts as a wildcard (matching anything)
# The following generates aliases ending with shaded for all artifacts in the
# project
%mvn_alias 'com.example.foo:{*}' :@1-shaded
3.2.4. Compatibility versions
Handling of compatibility packages, versioned jars etc.
In Fedora we prefer to always have only the latest version of a given project. Unfortunately, this is not always possible as some projects change too much and it would be too hard to port dependent packages to the current version. It is not possible to just update the package and keep the old version around as the names, file paths and dependency provides would clash. The recommended practice is to update the current package to the new version and create new package representing the old version (called compat package). The compat package needs to have the version number (usually only the major number, unless further distinction is necessary) appended to the name, thus effectivelly having different name from RPM’s point of view. Such compat package needs to perform some additional steps to ensure that it can be installed and used along the non-compat one.
You should always evaluate whether creating a compat package is really necessary. Porting dependent projects to new versions of dependencies may be a complicated task, but your effort would be appreciated and it is likely that the patch will be accepted upstream at some point in time. If the upstream is already inactive and the package is not required by anything, you should also consider retiring it. |
Maven Compat Versions
XMvn supports marking particular artifact as compat, performing the necessary steps to avoid clashes with the non-compat version.
An artifact can be marked as compat by %mvn_compat_version
.
It accepts an artifact argument which will determine which artifact will be compat.
The format for specifying artifact coordinates is the same as with %mvn_alias
.
In the common case you will want to mark all artifacts as compat. You can specify multiple compat versions at a time.
When XMvn performs dependency resolution for a dependency artifact in a project, it checks the dependency version and compares it against all versions of the artifact installed in the buildroot. If none of the compat artifacts matches it will resolve the artifact to the non-compat one. This has a few implications:
-
The versions are compared for exact match. The compat package should provide all applicable versions that are present in packages that are supposed to be used with this version.
-
The dependent packages need to have correct
BuildRequires
on the compat package as the virtual provides is also different (see below).
In order to prevent file name clashes, compat artifacts have the first specified compat version appended to the filename. Virtual provides for compat artifacts also contain the version as the last part of the coordinates. There are multiple provides for each specified compat version. Non-compat artifact do not have any version in the virtual provides.
%mvn_compat_version
# Assuming the package has name bar and version 3
# Sets the compat version of foo:bar artifact to 3
%mvn_compat_version foo:bar 3
# The installed artifact file (assuming it's jar and there were no
# %mvn_file calls) will be at %{_javadir}/bar/bar-3.jar
# The generated provides for foo:bar will be
# mvn(foo:bar:3) = 3
# mvn(foo:bar:pom:3) = 3
# Sets the compat versions of all artifacts in the build to 3 and 3.2
%mvn_compat_version : 3 3.2
3.3. Dependency Handling
RPM has multiple types of metadata to describe dependency relationships between packages.
The two basic types are Requires
and Provides
.
Requires
denote that a package needs something to be present at runtime to work correctly and the package manager is supposed to ensure that requires are met.
A single Requires
item can specify a package or a virtual provide.
RPM Provides
are a way to express that a package provides certain capability that other packages might need.
In case of Maven packages, the Provides
are used to denote that a package contains certain Maven artifact.
They add more flexibility to the dependency management as single package can have any number of provides, and they can be moved across different packages without breaking other packages' requires.
Provides
are usually generated by automatic tools based on the information from the built binaries or package source.
The Java packaging tooling on Fedora provides automatic Requires
and Provides
generation for packages built using XMvn.
The Provides
are based on Maven artifact coordinates of artifacts that were installed by the currently being built.
They are generated for each subpackage separately.
They follow a general format mvn(groupId:artifactId:extension:classifier:version)
, where the extension is omitted if its jar
and classifier is omitted if empty.
Version
is present only for compat artifacts, but the trailing colon has to be present unless it is a Jar artifact with no classifier.
# Example provide for Jar artifact
mvn(org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-server)
# Example provide for POM artifact
mvn(org.eclipse.jetty:jetty-parent:pom:)
# Example provide for Jar artifact with classifier
mvn(org.sonatype.sisu:sisu-guice::no_aop:)
The generated Requires are based on dependencies specified in Maven POMs in the project.
Only dependencies with scope
set to either compile
, runtime
or not set at all are used for Requires generation.
Requires do not rely on package names and instead always use virtual provides that were described above, in exactly the same format, in order to be satisfiable by the already existing provides.
For packages consisting of multiple subpackages, Requires
are generated separately for each subpackage.
Additionally, Requires
that point to an artifact in a different subpackage of the same source package are generated with exact versions to prevent version mismatches between artifacts belonging to the same project.
The requires generator also always generates Requires
on java-headless
and javapackages-tools
.
If the package is built built using different tool than Apache Maven, but still ships Maven POM(s), the you will still get automatic provides generation if you install the POM using %mvn_artifact
and %mvn_install
.
The requires generation will also be executed but the outcome largely depends on whether the POM contains accurate dependency insformation.
If it contains dependency information, you should double-check that it is correct and up-to-date.
Otherwise you need to add Requires
tags manually as described in the next section.
For packages without POMs it is necessary to specify Requires
tags manually.
In order to build the package you needed to specify BuildRequires
tags.
Your Requires
tags will therefore likely be a subset of your BuildRequires
, excluding build tools and test only dependencies.
The generated Requires and Provides of built packages can be queried using rpm
:
rpm -qp --provides path/to/example-1.0.noarch.rpm
rpm -qp --requires path/to/example-1.0.noarch.rpm
See also Querying Fedora repositories |
While Requires
and Provides
generation is automated for Maven projects, BuildRequires
still remains a manual task.
However, there are tools to simplify it to some extent.
XMvn ships a script xmvn-builddep
that takes a build.log
output from mock and prints Maven-style BuildRequires
on artifacts that were actually used during the build.
It does not help you to figure out what the BuildRequires
are before you actually build it, but it may help you to have a minimal set of BuildRequires
that are less likely to break, as they do not rely on transitive dependencies.
3.4. Javadoc packages
Javadoc subpackages in Fedora provide automatically generated API documentation for Java libraries and applications.
Java Development Kit comes with tool called javadoc
.
This tool can be used for generating the documentation from specially formated comments in Java source files.
Output of this tool, together with license files, usually represents only content of javadoc subpackages.
Note javadoc
invocation is typically handled by build system and package maintainer does not need to deal with it directly.
Javadoc subpackage shouldn’t depend on its base package and vice versa. The rationale behind this rule is that documentation can usually be used independently from application / library and therefore base package does not need to be always installed. Users are given an option to install application and documentation separately.
You can learn more about |
3.5. Core Java packages
3.5.1. JVM
Fedora allows multiple Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) to be packaged independently. Java packages should not directly depend on any particulat JVM, but instead require one of three virtual JVM packages depending of what Java funtionality is required.
java-headless
-
This package provides a working Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with some functionality disabled. Graphics and audio support may be unavailable in this case.
java-headless
provides functionality that is enough for most of packages and avoids pulling in a number of graphics and audio libraries as dependencies. Requirement onjava-headless
is appropriate for most of Java packages. java
-
Includes the same base functionality as
java-headless
, but also implements audio and graphics subsystems. Packages should requirejava
if they need some functionality from these subsystems, for example creating GUI using AWT library. java-devel
-
Provides full Java Development Kit (JDK). In most cases only packages related to Java development should have runtime dependencies on
java-devel
. Runtime packages should requirejava-headless
orjava
. Some packages not strictly related to java development need access to libraries included with JDK, but not with JRE (for exampletools.jar
). That is one of few cases where requiringjava-devel
may be necessary.
Packages that require minimal Java standard version can add versioned dependencies on one of virtual packages providing Java environment.
For example if packages depending on functionality of JDK 8 can require java-headless >= 1:1.8.0
.
Epoch in versions of JVM packages
For compatibility with JPackage project packages providing Java 1.6.0 or later use epoch equal to |
3.5.2. Java Packages Tools
Java Packages Tools are packaged as several binary RPM packages:
maven-local
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This package provides a complete environment which is required to build Java packages using Apache Maven build system. This includes a default system version of Java Development Kit (JDK), Maven, a number of Maven plugins commonly used to build packages, various macros and utlilty tools.
maven-local
is usually declared as build dependency of Maven packages. ivy-local
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Analogously to
maven-local
, this package provides an environment required to build Java packages using Apache Ivy as dependency manager. javapackages-local
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Package providing a basic environment necessary to geterate and install metadata for system artifact repository.
javapackages-tools
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Package owning basic Java directories and providing runtime support for Java packages. The great majority of Java packages depend on
javapackages-tools
.
4. Packaging Best Practices
Packaging Java has certain specifics that will be covered in this section which will cover basic packaging principles:
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No bundling
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Working with upstreams
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Commenting workarounds
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Single library version
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Links to other appropriate documents
-
…
5. Generic Java Builds
This chapter talks about basic build steps in Java such as invoking javac
and using spec macros like build-claspath
and build-jar-repository
.
5.1. Generating Application Shell Scripts
As mentioned in section about Java packaging basics, all Java applications need wrapper shell scripts to setup the environment before running JVM and associated Java code.
The javapackages-tools
package contains a convenience %jpackage_script
macro that can be used to create scripts that work for the majority of packages.
See its definition and documentation in /usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.jpackage
.
One thing to pay attention to is the 6th argument to it - whether to prefer a JRE over a full SDK when looking up a JVM to invoke.
Most packages that do not require the full Java SDK will want to set that to true
to avoid unexpected results when looking up a JVM when some of the installed JREs do not have the corresponding SDK (*-devel
package) installed.
%install
...
%jpackage_script msv.textui.Driver "" "" msv-msv:msv-xsdlib:relaxngDatatype:isorelax msv true
...
The previous example installs the msv
script (5th argument) with main class being msv.textui.Driver
(1st argument).
No optional flags (2nd argument) or options (3rd argument) are used.
This script will add several libraries to classpath before executing main class (4th argument, JAR files separated with :
).
build-classpath
is run on every part of 4th argument to create full classpaths.
5.2. Replacing JARs with symlinks using xmvn-subst
Sometimes it may be needed to replace all JAR files in current directory with symlinks to the system JARs located in %{_javadir}
.
This task can be achieved using tool called xmvn-subst
.
$ ls -l
-rw-r--r--. 1 msrb msrb 40817 Oct 22 09:16 cli.jar
-rw-r--r--. 1 msrb msrb 289983 Oct 22 09:17 junit4.jar
-rw-r--r--. 1 msrb msrb 474276 Oct 22 09:14 log4j.jar
$ xmvn-subst .
[INFO] Linked ./cli.jar to /usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar
[INFO] Linked ./log4j.jar to /usr/share/java/log4j.jar
[INFO] Linked ./junit4.jar to /usr/share/java/junit.jar
$ ls -la
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 msrb msrb 22 Oct 22 10:08 cli.jar -> /usr/share/java/commons-cli.jar
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 msrb msrb 22 Oct 22 10:08 junit4.jar -> /usr/share/java/junit.jar
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 msrb msrb 22 Oct 22 10:08 log4j.jar -> /usr/share/java/log4j.jar
The example above shows how easy the symlinking can be. However, there are some limitations.
Original JAR files need to carry metadata which tell xmvn-subst
for what artifact given file should be substituted.
Otherwise xmvn-subst
won’t be able to identify the Maven artifact from JAR file.
See |
6. Ant
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other.
Apache Ant is one of the most popular Java build tools after Apache Maven. The main difference between these two tools is that Ant is procedural and Maven is declarative. When using Ant, it is neccessary to exactly describe the processes which lead to the result. It means that one needs to specify where the source files are, what needs to be done and when it needs to be done. On the other hand, Maven relies on conventions and doesn’t require specifying most of the process unless you need to override the defaults.
If upstream ships a Maven POM file, it must be installed even if you don’t build with Maven. If not, you should try to search Maven Central Repository for it, ship it as another source and install it.
BuildRequires: ant
BuildRequires: javapackages-local
...
%build
ant test
%install
%mvn_artifact pom.xml lib/%{name}.jar
%mvn_install -J api/
%files -f .mfiles
%files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
-
%build
section usesant
command to build the project and run the tests. The used target(s) may vary depending on thebuild.xml
file. You can useant -p
command to list the project info or manually look for<target>
nodes in thebuild.xml
file. -
%mvn_artifact
macro is used to request installation of an artifact that was not built using Maven. It expects a POM file and a JAR file. For POM only artifacts, the JAR part is omitted. See Installing additional artifacts for more information. -
%mvn_install
performs the actual installation. Optional-J
parameter requests installation of generated Javadoc from given directory. -
This method of artifact installation allows using other XMvn macros such as
%mvn_alias
or%mvn_package
. -
%mvn_install
generates.mfiles
file which should be used to populate%files
section with-f
switch. For each subpackage there would be separate generated file named.mfiles-subpackage-name
. -
All packages are required to own directories which they create (and which are not owned by other packages). JAR files are by default installed into subdirectory of
%{_javadir}
. To override this behavior, use%mvn_file
.
6.1. Apache Ivy
Apache Ivy provides an automatic dependency management for Ant managed builds. It uses Maven repositories for retrieving artifacts and supports many declarative features of Maven such as handling transitive dependencies.
XMvn supports local resolution of Ivy artifacts, their installation and requires generation.
BuildRequires: ivy-local
...
%build
ant -Divy.mode=local test
%install
%mvn_artifact ivy.xml lib/sample.jar
%mvn_install -J api/
%files -f .mfiles
%files -javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
-
-Divy.mode=local
tells Ivy to use XMvn local artifact resolution instead of downloading from the Internet. -
If there is an
ivy-settings.xml
or similar file, which specifies remote repositories, it needs to be disabled, otherwise it would override local resolution. -
%mvn_artifact
supports installing artifacts described by Ivy configuration files. -
%mvn_install
performs the actual installation. Optional-J
parameter requests installation of generated Javadoc from given directory.
A subset of macros used to modify Maven POMs also work with ivy.xml
files allowing the maintainer to add / remove / change dependencies without the need of making patches and rebasing them with each change.
You can use dependency handling macros %pom_add_dep
, %pom_remove_dep
, %pom_change_dep
and generic %pom_xpath_*
macros.
For more details, see corresponding manpages.
# Remove dependency on artifact with org="com.example" and
# name="java-project" from ivy.xml file in current directory
%pom_remove_dep com.example:java-project
# Add dependency on artifact with org="com.example" and
# name="foobar" to ./submodule/ivy.xml
%pom_add_dep com.example:foobar submodule
ivy:publish
taskIvy supports publishing built artifact with ivy:publish
task.
If your build.xml
file already contains a task that calls ivy:publish
, you can set the resolver attribute of the ivy:publish
element to xmvn
.
This can be done with simple %pom_xpath_set
call.
Then when the task is run, XMvn can pick the published artifacts and install them during the run of %mvn_install
without needing you to manually specify them with %mvn_artifact
.
ivy:publish
taskBuildRequires: ivy-local
...
%prep
%pom_xpath_set ivy:publish/@resolver xmvn build.xml
%build
ant -Divy.mode=local test publish-local
%install
%mvn_install -J api/
%files -f .mfiles
%files -javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
-
The publish target may be named differently. Search the
build.xml
for occurences ofivy:publish
. -
%mvn_install
will install all the published artifacts.
7. Maven
Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
Maven is by far the most consistent Java build system, allowing large amount of automation. In most common situations only following steps are necessary:
-
In
%build
section of the spec file use%mvn_build
macro. -
In
%install
section, use%mvn_install
macro. -
Use generated file
.mfiles
lists to populate%files
section with-f
switch.
BuildRequires: maven-local
...
%build
%mvn_build
...
%install
%mvn_install
...
%files -f .mfiles
%dir %{_javadir}/%{name}
%files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
The macros %mvn_build
and %mvn_install
automatically handle building of the JAR files and their subsequent installation to the correct directory.
The corresponding POM and metadata files are also installed.
7.1. Packaging Maven project
This step by step guide will show you how to package Maven project. Let’s start with probably the simplest spec file possible.
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Name: simplemaven
Version: 1.0
Release: 1%{?dist}
Summary: Simple Maven project
License: BSD
URL: https://www.example.com
Source0: https://www.example.com/simplemaven-1.0.tar.gz
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRequires: maven-local
%description
This is simple Maven project.
%package javadoc
Summary: Javadoc for %{name}
%description javadoc
This package contains the API documentation for %{name}.
%prep
%setup -q
%build
%mvn_build
%install
%mvn_install
%files -f .mfiles
%files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
%changelog
* Mon Oct 14 2013 Michal Srb <msrb@redhat.com> - 1.0-1
- Initial packaging
The spec file above is a real world example how it may look like for simple Maven project.
Both %build
and %install
sections consist only of one line.
Another interesting line:
10: BuildRequires: maven-local
All Maven projects need to have BuildRequires
on maven-local
.
They also need to have Requires
and BuildRequires
on jpackages-utils
, but build system adds these automatically.
The package maintainer does not need to list them explicitly.
31: %dir %{_javadir}/%{name}
By default, resulting JAR files will be installed in %{_javadir}/%{name}
, therefore the package needs to own this directory.
The build could fail from many reasons, but one probably most common is build failure due to missing dependencies.
We can try to remove these missing dependencies from pom.xml and make Maven stop complaining about them.
However, these removed dependencies may be crucial for building of the project and therefore it may be needed to package them later.
Let’s remove the dependencies from pom.xml
.
...
%prep
%setup -q
# Add following lines to %prep section of a spec file
%pom_remove_dep :commons-io
%pom_remove_dep :junit
The package maintainer can use a wide variety of “pom_” macros for modifying pom.xml
files.
See the Macros for POM modification section for more information.
Now try to build the project again. The build will fail with a compilation failure.
Oops, another problem. This time Maven thought it had all the necessary dependencies, but Java compiler found otherwise.
Now it is possible to either patch the source code not to depend on missing libraries or to package them.
The second approach is usually correct.
It is not necessary to package every dependency right away.
The maintainer could package compile time dependencies first and keep the rest for later (test dependencies, etc.).
But Maven needs to know that it should not try to run tests now.
This can be achieved by passing -f
option to %mvn_build
macro.
Maven will stop complaining about missing test scoped dependencies from now on.
Another reason to disable the test phase is to speed up the local build process.
This can also be achieved by specifying an additional switch Another switch |
It is always recommended to run all available test suites during build. It greatly improves quality of the package. |
We already have package which provides commons-io:commons-io
artifact, let’s add it to the BuildRequires
.
Also disable tests for now.
BuildRequires: maven-local
BuildRequires: apache-commons-io
...
%prep
%setup -q
# Comment out following lines in %prep section
#%%pom_remove_dep :commons-io
#%%pom_remove_dep :junit
%build
# Skip tests for now, missing dependency junit:junit:4.11
%mvn_build -f
One can easily search for package which provides the desired artifact.
Try |
Now try to build the project one more time. The build should succeed now. Congrats, you managed to create an RPM from Maven project!
There is plenty of other things maintainer may want to do.
For example, they may want to provide symbolic links to the JAR file in %{_javadir}
.
This can be easily achieved with %mvn_file
macro:
%prep
%setup -q
%mvn_file : %{name}/%{name} %{name}
See Alternative JAR File Names section for more information.
Another quite common thing to do is adding aliases to Maven artifact.
Try to run rpm -qp --provides
on your locally built RPM package:
$ rpm -qp --provides simplemaven-1.0-1.fc21.noarch.rpm
mvn(com.example:simplemaven) = 1.0
simplemaven = 1.0-1.fc21
The output above tells us that the RPM package provides Maven artifact com.example:simplemaven:1.0
.
Upstream may change the groupId:artifactId
with any new release.
And it happens.
For example org.apache.commons:commons-io
changed to commons-io:commons-io
some time ago.
It is not a big deal for package itself, but it is a huge problem for other packages that depends on that particular package.
Some packages may still have dependencies on old groupId:artifactId
, which is suddenly unavailable.
Luckily, there is an easy way how to solve the problems like these.
Package maintainer can add aliases to actually provided Maven artifact.
%mvn_alias org.example:simplemaven simplemaven:simplemaven
See Additional Mappings for more information on %mvn_alias
.
Rebuild the pacakge and check rpm -qp --provides
output again:
$ rpm -qp --provides simplemaven-1.0-2.fc21.noarch.rpm
mvn(com.example:simplemaven) = 1.0
mvn(simplemaven:simplemaven) = 1.0
simplemaven = 1.0-2.fc21
Now it does not matter if some other package depends on either of these listed artifact. Both dependencies will always be satisfied with your package.
One could try to fix dependencies in all the dependent packages instead of adding an alias to single package. It is almost always wrong thing to do. |
7.2. Macros for Maven build configuration
Maven builds can be configured to produce alternative layout, include additional aliases in package metadata or create separate subpackages for certain artifacts.
7.2.1. Installing additional artifacts
It is possible to explicitly request an installation of any Maven artifact (JAR / POM file).
Macro %mvn_install
only knows about Maven artifacts that were created during execution of %mvn_build
.
Normally, any other artifacts which were built by some other method would need to be installed manually.
%mvn_build
macro does not even need to be used at all.
Luckily, all artifacts created outside of %mvn_build
can be marked for installation with %mvn_artifact
macro.
This macro creates configuration for %mvn_install
.
%prep
...
# Request installation of POM and JAR file
%mvn_artifact subpackage/pom.xml target/artifact.jar
# Request installation of POM artifact (no JAR file)
%mvn_artifact pom.xml
# Request installation for JAR file specified by artifact coordinates
%mvn_artifact webapp:webapp:war:3.1 webapp.war
7.2.2. Additional Mappings
The macro %mvn_alias
can be used to add additional mappings for given POM / JAR file.
For example, if the POM file indicates that it contains groupId
commons-lang
, artifactId
commons-lang
, this macro ensures that we also add a mapping between groupId
org.apache.commons
and the installed JAR / POM files.
This is necessary in cases where the groupId or artifactId may have changed, and other packages might require different IDs than those reflected in the installed POM.
%prep
...
%mvn_alias "commons-lang:commons-lang" "org.apache.commons:commons-lang"
7.2.3. Alternative JAR File Names
In some cases, it may be important to be able to provide symbolic links to actual JAR files.
This can be achieved with %mvn_file
macro.
This macro allows packager to specify names of the JAR files, their location in %{_javadir}
directory and also can create symbolic links to the JAR files.
These links can be possibly located outside of the %{_javadir}
directory.
%prep
...
%mvn_file :guice google/guice guice
This means that JAR file for artifact with ID "guice" (and any groupId
) will be installed in %{_javadir}/google/guice.jar
and there also will be a symbolic links to this JAR file located in %{_javadir}/guice.jar
.
Note the macro will add .jar
extensions automatically.
7.2.4. Single Artifact Per Package
If the project consists of multiple artifacts, it is recommended to install each artifact to the separate subpackage.
The macro %mvn_build -s
will generate separate .mfiles
file for every artifact in the project.
This file contains list of files related to specific artifact (typically JAR file, POM file and metadata).
It can be later used in %files
section of the spec file.
...
%description
The Maven Plugin Tools contains...
%package -n maven-plugin-annotations
Summary: Maven Plugin Java 5 Annotations
%description -n maven-plugin-annotations
This package contains Java 5 annotations to use in Mojos.
%package -n maven-plugin-plugin
Summary: Maven Plugin Plugin
%description -n maven-plugin-plugin
The Plugin Plugin is used to...
...
%build
%mvn_build -s
%install
%mvn_install
%files -f .mfiles-maven-plugin-tools
%doc LICENSE NOTICE
%files -n maven-plugin-annotations -f .mfiles-maven-plugin-annotations
%files -n maven-plugin-plugin -f .mfiles-maven-plugin-plugin
%files -f .mfiles-javadoc
...
7.2.5. Assignment of the Maven Artifacts to the Subpackages
The macro %mvn_package
allows maintainer to specify in which exact package the selected artifact will end up.
It is something between singleton packaging, when each artifact has its own subpackage and default packaging, when all artifacts end up in the same package.
...
%prep
%mvn_package ":plexus-compiler-jikes" plexus-compiler-extras
%mvn_package ":plexus-compiler-eclipse" plexus-compiler-extras
%mvn_package ":plexus-compiler-csharp" plexus-compiler-extras
%build
%mvn_build
%install
%mvn_install
%files -f .mfiles
%files -f .mfiles-plexus-compiler-extras
%files -f .mfiles-javadoc
In above example, the artifacts plexus-compiler-jikes
, plexus-compiler-eclipse
, plexus-compiler-csharp
will end up in package named plexus-compiler-extras
.
If there are some other artifacts beside these three mentioned (e.g. some parent POMs), then these will all end up in package named %{name}
.
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It is possible to assign artifacts into a package called __noinstall
.
This package name has a special meaning.
And as you can guess, artifacts assigned into this package will not be installed anywhere and the package itself will not be created.
%prep
...
%mvn_package groupId:artifactId __noinstall
7.2.6. Modifying XMvn configuration from within spec file
Some packages might need to modify XMvn’s configuration in order to build successfully or from other reasons.
This can be achieved with mvn_config
macro.
For example, some old package can use enum
as an identifier, but it is also keyword since Java 1.5.
Such package will probably fail to build on current systems.
This problem can be easily solved by passing -source 1.4
to the compiler, so one could add following line to the spec file:
%prep
...
%mvn_config buildSettings/compilerSource 1.4
XMvn’s configuration is quite complex, but well documented at the project’s official website. The website should always be used as a primary source of information about XMvn configuration.
Read about XMvn’s configuration basics and see the full configuration reference. |
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7.3. Macros for POM modification
Sometimes Maven pom.xml
files need to be patched before they are used to build packages.
One could use traditional patches to maintain changes, but package maintainers should use %pom_*
macros developed specially to ease this task.
Using %pom_*
macros not only increases readability of the spec file, but also improves maintainability of the package as there are no patches that would need to be rebased with each upstream release.
There are two categories of macros:
-
POM-specific macros - used to manipulate dependencies, modules, etc. Some of them also work on
ivy.xml
files. -
Generic XML manipulation macros - used to add / remove / replace XML nodes.
The macros are designed to be called from %prep
section of spec files.
All the macros also have their own manual page.
This document provides an overview of how they are used.
For the technical details, refer to their respective manpages.
By default, a macro acts on a pom.xml
file (or ivy.xml
file) in the current directory.
Different path can be explicitly specified via an argument (the last one, unless stated otherwise).
Multiple paths can be specified as multiple arguments.
If a path is a directory, it looks for a pom.xml
file in that directory.
For example:
# The following works on pom.xml file in the current directory
%pom_remove_parent
# The following works on submodule/pom.xml
%pom_remove_parent submodule
# The following works on submodule/pom.xml as well
%pom_remove_parent submodule/pom.xml
# The following works on submodule2/pom.xml and submodule2/pom.xml
%pom_remove_parent submodule1 submodule2
Most macros also support recursive mode, where the change is applied to the pom.xml
and all its modules recursively.
This can be used, for example, to remove a dependency from the whole project.
It is activated by -r
switch.
7.3.1. Dependency manipulation macros
Often dependencies specified in Maven pom.xml
files need to be removed because of different reasons.
%pom_remove_dep
macro can be used to ease this task:
# Removes dependency with groupId "foo" and artifactId "bar" from pom.xml
%pom_remove_dep foo:bar
# Removes dependency on all artifacts with groupId "foo" from pom.xml
%pom_remove_dep foo:
# Removes dependency on all artifacts with artifactId "bar" from pom.xml
%pom_remove_dep :bar
# Removes dependency on all artifacts with artifactId "bar" from submodule1/pom.xml
%pom_remove_dep :bar submodule1
# Removes dependency on all artifacts with artifactId "bar" from pom.xml
# and all its submodules
%pom_remove_dep -r :bar
# Removes all dependencies from pom.xml
%pom_remove_dep :
Dependencies can also be added to pom.xml
with %pom_add_dep
macro.
Usage is very similar to %pom_remove_dep
, see $ man pom_add_dep
for more information.
Sometimes the artifact coordinates used in upstream pom.xml
do not correspond to ones used in Fedora and you need to modify them.
%pom_change_dep
macro will modify all dependencies matching the first argument to artifact coordinates specified by the second argument.
Note this macro also works in recursive mode.
# For all artifacts in pom.xml that have groupId 'example' change it to
# 'com.example' while leaving artifactId and other parts intact
%pom_change_dep example: com.example:
7.3.2. Adding / removing plugins
%pom_remove_plugin
macro works exactly as %pom_remove_dep
, except it removes Maven plugin invocations.
Some examples:
# Disables maven-jar-plugin so that classpath isn't included in manifests
%pom_remove_plugin :maven-jar-plugin
# Disable a proprietary plugin that isn't packaged for Fedora
%pom_remove_plugin com.example.mammon:useless-proprietary-plugin submodule
Like in previous case, there is also a macro for adding plugins to pom.xml
.
See its manual page for more information.
7.3.3. Disabling unneeded modules
Sometimes some submodules of upstream project cannot be built for various reasons and there is a need to disable them.
This can be achieved by using %pom_disable_module
, for example:
# Disables child-module-1, a submodule of the main pom.xml file
%pom_disable_module child-module-1
# Disables grandchild-module, a submodule of child-module-2/pom.xml
%pom_disable_module grandchild-module child-module-2
7.3.4. Working with parent POM references
Macro %pom_remove_parent
removes reference to a parent POM from Maven POM files.
This can be useful when parent POM is not yet packaged (e.g. because of licensing issues) and at the same time it is not really needed for building of the project.
There are also macros for adding parent POM reference (%pom_add_parent
) and replacing existing reference with new one (%pom_set_parent
).
# Remove reference to a parent POM from ./pom.xml
%pom_remove_parent
# Remove reference to a parent POM from ./submodule/pom.xml
%pom_remove_parent submodule
# Add parent POM reference to ./pom.xml
%pom_add_parent groupId:artifactId
# Replace existing parent POM reference in ./pom.xml
%pom_set_parent groupId:artifactId:version
7.3.5. Macros for performing generic modifications
The above macros cover the most common cases of modifying pom.xml
files, however if there is a need to apply some less-common patches there are also three generic macros for modifying pom.xml
files.
These generic macros can also be applied to other XML files, such as Ant’s build.xml
files.
They all take a XPath 1.0 expression that selects XML nodes to be acted on (removed, replaced, etc.).
Handling XML namespaces
POM files use a specific namespace - |
%pom_xpath_remove
can be used to remove arbitrary XML nodes.
# Removes extensions from the build
%pom_xpath_remove "pom:build/pom:extensions" module/pom.xml
%pom_xpath_inject
macro is capable of injecting arbitrary XML code to any pom.xml
file.
The injected code is the last argument - optional file paths go before it (unlike most other macros).
To pass a multiline snippet, quote the argument as in the following example.
# Add additional exclusion into maven-wagon dependency
%pom_xpath_inject "pom:dependency[pom:artifactId='maven-wagon']/pom:exclusions" "
<exclusion>
<groupId>antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
</exclusion>"
# The same thing, but with explicit file path
%pom_xpath_inject "pom:dependency[pom:artifactId='maven-wagon']/pom:exclusions" pom.xml "
<exclusion>
<groupId>antlr</groupId>
<artifactId>antlr</artifactId>
</exclusion>"
%pom_xpath_set
replaces content of the arbitrary XML nodes with specified value (can contain XML nodes).
# Change groupId of a parent
%pom_xpath_set "pom:parent/pom:groupId" "org.apache"
%pom_xpath_replace
replaces a XML node with specified XML code.
# Change groupId of a parent (note the difference from %pom_xpath_set)
%pom_xpath_replace "pom:parent/pom:groupId" "<groupId>org.apache</groupId>"
8. Common Errors
This section contains explanations and solutions/workarounds for common errors which can be encountered during packaging.
8.1. Missing dependency
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project simplemaven: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.example:simplemaven:jar:1.0: The following artifacts could not be resolved: commons-io:commons-io:jar:2.4, junit:junit:jar:4.11: Cannot access central (http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2) in offline mode and the artifact commons-io:commons-io:jar:2.4 has not been downloaded from it before. -> [Help 1]
Maven wasn’t able to build project com.example:simplemaven
because it couldn’t find some dependencies (in this case commons-io:commons-io:jar:2.4
and junit:junit:jar:4.11
)
You have multiple options here:
-
If you suspect that a dependency is not necessary, you can remove it from
pom.xml
file and Maven will stop complaining about it. You can use wide variety of macros for modifying POM files. The one for removing dependencies is called%pom_remove_dep
. -
There is a mock plugin that can automate installation of missing dependencies. When you’re using mock, pass additional
--enable-plugin pm_request
argument and the build process would be able to install missing dependencies by itself. You still need to add theBuildRequires
later, because you need to build the package in Koji, where the plugin is not allowed. You should do so usingxmvn-builddep build.log
, wherebuild.log
is the path to mock’s build log. It will print a list ofBuildRequires
lines, which you can directly paste into the specfile. To verify that theBuildRequires
you just added are correct, you can rebuild the package once more without the plugin enabled. -
Add the artifacts to
BuildRequires
manually. Maven packages have virtual provides in a formatmvn(artifact coordinates)
, where artifact coordinates are in the format which Maven used in the error message, but without version for non-compat packages (most of the packages you encounter). Virtual provides can be used directly inBuildRequires
, so in this case it would be:
BuildRequires: mvn(commons-io:commons-io) BuildRequires: mvn(junit:junit)
8.2. Compilation failure
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project simplemaven: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: [ERROR] /builddir/build/BUILD/simplemaven-1.0/src/main/java/com/example/Main.java:[3,29] package org.apache.commons.io does not exist [ERROR] /builddir/build/BUILD/simplemaven-1.0/src/main/java/com/example/Main.java:[8,9] cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol: class FileUtils [ERROR] location: class com.example.Main [ERROR] -> [Help 1]
Java compiler couldn’t find given class on classpath or incompatible version was present. This could be caused by following reasons:
-
pom.xml
requires different version of the Maven artifact than the local repository provides -
pom.xml
is missing a necessary dependency
Different versions of same library may provide slightly different API.
This means that project doesn’t have to be buildable if different version is provided.
If the library in local repository is older than the one required by project, then the library could be updated.
If the project requires older version, then the project should be ported to latest stable version of the library (this may require cooperation with project’s upstream).
If none of these is possible from some reason, it is still possible to introduce new compat
package.
See compat packages section for more information on this topic.
Sometimes pom.xml
doesn’t list all the necessary dependencies, even if it should.
Dependencies can also depend on some other and typically all these will be available to the project which is being built.
The problem is that local repository may contain different versions of these dependencies.
And even if these versions are fully compatible with the project, they may require slightly different set of dependencies.
This could lead to build failure if pom.xml
doesn’t specify all necessary dependencies and relies on transitive dependencies.
Such a missing dependency may be considered a bug in the project.
The solution is to explicitly add missing dependency to the pom.xml
.
This may be easily done by using %pom_add_dep
macro.
See the section about macros for POM modification for more information.
8.3. Requires cannot be generated
Following dependencies were not resolved and requires cannot be generated. Either remove the dependency from pom.xml or add proper packages to BuildRequires: org.apache.maven.doxia:doxia-core::tests:UNKNOWN
Most often this error happens when one part of the package depends on an attached artifact which is not being installed. Automatic RPM requires generator then tries to generate requires on artifact which is not being installed. This would most likely result in a broken RPM package so generator halts the build.
There are usually two possible solutions for this problem:
-
Install attached artifact in question. For the above error following macro would install artifacts with
tests
classifiers intotests
subpackage.
%mvn_package :::tests: %{name}-tests
-
Remove dependency on problematic artifact. This can involve
pom.xml
modifications, disabling tests or even code changes so it is usually easier to install the dependency.
8.4. Dependencies with scope system
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.fedoraproject.xmvn:xmvn-mojo:1.2.0:install (default-cli) on project pom: Some reactor artifacts have dependencies with scope "system". Such dependencies are not supported by XMvn installer. You should either remove any dependencies with scope "system" before the build or not run XMvn instaler. -> [Help 1]
Some Maven artifacts try to depend on exact system paths.
Most usually this dependency is either on com.sun:tools
or sun.jdk:jconsole
.
Dependencies with system scope cause issues with our tooling and requires generators so they are not supported.
Easiest way to solve this for above two dependencies is by removing and adding back the dependency without <scope>
or <systemPath>
nodes:
%pom_remove_dep com.sun:tools %pom_add_dep com.sun:tools
9. Migration from older tools
This section describes how to migrate packages that use older deprecated tools to current ones.
9.1. %add_maven_depmap
macro
%add_maven_depmap
macro was used to manually install Maven artifacts that were built with Apache Ant or mvn-rpmbuild
.
It is now deprecated and its invocations should be replaced with %mvn_artifact
and %mvn_install
.
Artifact files, Maven POM files and their installation directories no longer need to be manually installed, since that is done during run of %mvn_install
.
The installed files also don’t need to be explicitly enumerated in %files
section. Generated file .mfiles
should be used instead.
Relevant parts of specfile using %add_maven_depmap
:
BuildRequires: javapackages-tools
Requires: some-library
...
%build
ant test
%install
install -d -m 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_javadir}
install -m 644 target/%{name}.jar $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_javadir}/%{name}.jar
install -d -m 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mavenpomdir}
install -m 644 %{name}.pom $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mavenpomdir}/JPP-%{name}.pom
# Note that the following call is equivalent to invoking the macro
# without any parameters
%add_maven_depmap JPP-%{name}.pom %{name}.jar
# javadoc
install -d -m 755 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_javadocdir}/%{name}
cp -pr api/* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_javadocdir}/%{name}
%files
%{_javadir}/*
%{_mavenpomdir}/*
%{_mavendepmapfragdir}/*
%files javadoc
%doc %{_javadocdir}/%{name}
The same specfile migrated to %mvn_artifact
and %mvn_install
:
# mvn_* macros are located in javapackages-local package
BuildRequires: javapackages-local
# Since XMvn generates requires automatically, it is no longer needed
# nor recommended to specify manual Requires tags, unless the dependency
# information in the POM is incomplete or you need to depend on non-java
# packages
...
%prep
# The default location for installing JAR files is %{_javadir}/%{name}/
# Because our original specfile put the JAR directly to %{_javadir}, we
# want to override this behavior. The folowing call tells XMvn to
# install the groupId:artifactId artifact as %{_javadir}/%{name}.jar
%mvn_file groupId:artifactId %{name}
%build
ant test
# Tell XMvn which artifact belongs to which POM
%mvn_artifact %{name}.pom target/%{name}.jar
%install
# It is not necessary to install directories and artifacts manually,
# mvn_install will take care of it
# Optionally use -J parameter to specify path to directory with built
# javadoc
%mvn_install -J api
# Use autogenerated .mfiles file instead of specifying individual files
%files -f .mfiles
%files javadoc -f .mfiles-javadoc
%add_maven_depmap
had -a
switch to specify artifact aliases and -f
switch to support splitting artifacts across multiple subpackages.
To achieve the same things with %mvn_*
macros, see Additional Mappings and Assignment of the Maven Artifacts to the Subpackages.
If the project consists of multiple artifacts and parent POMs are among them, call |
Appendix A: Manpages
This section contains manpages for mvn_*
and pom_*
macros.
A.1. mvn_alias
MVN_ALIAS(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_ALIAS(7) NAME mvn_alias - add alias(es) for Maven artifact(s) SYNOPSIS %mvn_alias artifact-coordinates alias [alias ...] DESCRIPTION mvn_alias macro causes instructions for artifact installation to be added to XMvn reactor configuration. It is used to specify alternative names (aliases) for Maven artifacts. Specified artifact coordinates must match at least one artifact. If not then behavior is unspecified. It is possible to specify artifact coordinates matching multiple artifacts, so one call to mvn_alias can affect installation of more than one artifact. OPERANDS artifact-coordinates Artifact coordinates specify artifact(s) that this rule applies to. Coordinates are in format groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]][:version]. If extension is specified then version must be specified too. If any part is omitted or equal to empty string then it matches any string. Wildcards and brace expansions are supported in each part. For more information see XMvn Configuration Reference. alias Coordinates specifying artifact alias (alternative name under which matching artifacts will be available). Coordinates are in format groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]][:version]. If extension is specified then version must be specified too. If any part is omitted or equal to empty string then corresponding part from artifact-coordinates will be substituted. Backreferences are supported in form @n, where n is an integer corresponding to brace in artifact-coordinates. AUTHOR Originally written by Mikolaj Izdebski. Versions 3.0.0 and later were written by Stanislav Ochotnicky. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_file(7), mvn_package(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_ALIAS(7)
A.2. mvn_artifact
MVN_ARTIFACT(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_ARTIFACT(7) NAME mvn_artifact - request installation of Maven artifact SYNOPSIS %mvn_artifact [options] model [artifact-file] %mvn_artifact [options] artifact-coordinates artifact-file DESCRIPTION mvn_artifact macro marks specified Maven artifact to be installed by further call to mvn_install. Multiple calls to mvn_artifact and/or mvn_build can be made to request installation of multiple artifacts. OPTIONS --skip-dependencies Do not try to gather list of dependencies for given Maven artifact. -Dproperty=value Add artifact property OPERANDS model Path to raw project object model (POM) file to be associated and installed with artifact. artifact-file Path to file to be used as artifact file. If omitted then no artifact file is installed. artifact-coordinates Artifact coordinates specify artifact to be installed. If specified then no model file is installed with artifact. Coordinates are in format groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]]:version. If extension is omitted then "jar" is used. If classifier is omitted then empty classifier is used. For more information see XMvn Configuration Reference. AUTHOR Written by Michal Srb. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_install(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_ARTIFACT(7)
A.3. mvn_build
MVN_BUILD(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_BUILD(7) NAME mvn_build - build Maven project with XMvn SYNOPSIS %mvn_build [options] [-- Maven-arguments] DESCRIPTION mvn_build macro builds Maven project by calling XMvn and generates reactor structure information to be used by mvn_install. By default Maven phase verify and goal javadoc:aggregate are executed, as well as some additional XMvn-specific goals or phases. If -f is specified then phase package is executed instead of verify. If -j is given then goal javadoc:aggregate is skipped. Any arguments after -- are passed directly to XMvn. See xmvn(1) for more information on availability of XMvn options. OPTIONS -d, --xmvn-debug Enable XMvn debugging output. This option causes XMvn to write verbose debugging information to standard output. Debugging information includes at least details about artifact resolution from system repositories. -f, --force Skip compilation and execution of unit and integration tests, as well as resolution of build dependencies with scope test. This option causes Maven phase package to be executed instead of default phase verify, defines property maven.test.skip=true which disables compilation and execution of tests and causes XMvn to remove any project dependencies with scope test. -i, --skip-install Skip artifact installation. This option disables generation of reactor structure information so that future calls to mvn_install will not result in installation of artifacts produced in current Maven reactor. -j, --skip-javadoc Skip javadoc generation. This option skips running Maven Javadoc Plugin. Useful for packages which don’t want to produce Java API documentation. -s, --singleton Enable singleton packaging (one artifact per package). This option causes artifacts with identical artifactId to be installed as part of the same subpackage. This behavior can be further customized by adding more specific packaging rules with mvn_package. -X, --debug Enable Maven debugging output. Implies -d. This option causes Maven to write verbose debugging information to standard output. ENVIRONMENT xmvn_bootstrap Run XMvn in online mode. If xmvn_bootstrap RPM macro is defined to any value then XMvn is ran in online mode. Otherwise XMvn is ran in offline mode. Online mode of XMvn allows missing dependency artifacts to be fetched from remote repositories. This behavior is mostly useful when bootstrapping new packages, which dependecies have not yet been packaged. _without_tests Defining this macro to any value is equivalent to -f option. _without_javadoc Defining this macro to any value is equivalent to -j option. AUTHOR Originally written by Mikolaj Izdebski. Versions 3.0.0 and later were written by Stanislav Ochotnicky. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO mvn_alias(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_file(7), mvn_package(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_BUILD(7)
A.4. mvn_compat_version
MVN_COMPAT_VERSION(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_COMPAT_VERSION(7) NAME mvn_compat_version - set version(s) for Maven artifact(s) SYNOPSIS %mvn_compat_version artifact-coordinates version [version ...] DESCRIPTION mvn_compat_version macro causes instructions for artifact installation to be added to XMvn reactor configuration. It is used to specify versions for Maven artifacts. Specified artifact coordinates must match at least one artifact. If not then behavior is unspecified. It is possible to specify artifact coordinates matching multiple artifacts, so one call to mvn_compat_version can affect installation of more than one artifact. OPERANDS artifact-coordinates Artifact coordinates specify artifact(s) that this rule applies to. Coordinates are in format groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]][:version]. If extension is specified then version must be specified too. If any part is omitted or equal to empty string then it matches any string. Wildcards and brace expansions are supported in each part. For more information see XMvn Configuration Reference. version Strings specifying artifact version. Backreferences are supported in form @n, where n is an integer corresponding to brace in artifact-coordinates. AUTHOR Written by Stanislav Ochotnicky. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_alias(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_file(7), mvn_package(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_COMPAT_VERSION(7)
A.5. mvn_config
MVN_CONFIG(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_CONFIG(7) NAME mvn_config - specify custom XMvn configuration option SYNOPSIS %mvn_config key value DESCRIPTION mvn_config macro causes custom configuration options to be added to XMvn reactor configuration. OPERANDS key Configuration option key (unique name). This is XPath-like address of XML configuration node - list of XML nodes delimited by /. If unknown key is given, behavior is unspecified. For list of available keys see XMvn Configuration Reference. value Value of specified option. Must be either plain text or XML content. If value format is inappropriate for particular option, behavior is unspecified. AUTHOR Originally written by Mikolaj Izdebski. Versions 3.0.0 and later were written by Stanislav Ochotnicky. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_alias(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_file(7), mvn_package(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_CONFIG(7)
A.6. mvn_file
MVN_FILE(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_FILE(7) NAME mvn_file - set installation location(s) for Maven artifact(s) SYNOPSIS %mvn_file artifact-coordinates primary-file [secondary-file ...] DESCRIPTION mvn_file macro causes instructions for artifact installation to be added to XMvn reactor configuration. It is used to control locations of artifact files in file system. (The exact meaning of artifact location is dependant on particular implementation of XMvn repository into which artifacts will be installed.) Specified artifact coordinates must match at least one artifact. If not then behavior is unspecified. It is possible to specify artifact coordinates matching multiple artifacts, so one call to mvn_file can affect installation of more than one artifact. OPERANDS artifact-coordinates Artifact coordinates specify artifact(s) that this rule applies to. Coordinates are in format groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]][:version]. If extension is specified then version must be specified too. If any part is omitted or equal to empty string then it matches any string. Wildcards and brace expansions are supported in each part. For more information see XMvn Configuration Reference. primary-file Primary location of artifact file. This operand is passed directly to XMvn installer. Its exact meaning is specific to particular repository implementation used to install given artifact. Backreferences are supported in form @n, where n is an integer corresponding to brace in artifact-coordinates. secondary-file Secondary location of artifact file. There can be any number (zero or more) of secondary artifact files. These operands are passed directly to XMvn installer. Their exact meaning is specific to particular repository implementation used to install given artifact. Backreferences are supported in form @n, where n is an integer corresponding to brace in artifact-coordinates. AUTHOR Originally written by Mikolaj Izdebski. Versions 3.0.0 and later were written by Stanislav Ochotnicky. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_alias(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_package(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_FILE(7)
A.7. mvn_install
MVN_INSTALL(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_INSTALL(7) NAME mvn_install - install Maven artifacts SYNOPSIS %mvn_install [-X] [-J directory] DESCRIPTION mvn_install macro installs Maven artifacts into %buildroot. Specification of artifacts to be installed is taken from .xmvn-reactor file. This file can be populated using mvn_build and/or mvn_artifact macros. Specification how artifacts should be installed is taken from installer settings section in XMvn configuration. See XMvn Configuration Reference for more information. Macros mvn_alias(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_file(7) and mvn_package(7) are capable of writing configuration that can affect behavior of mvn_install. OPTIONS -X Enable debugging output. This option causes XMvn installer to write verbose debugging information to standard output. -J directory Specify alternative API documentation directory. By default API documentation is searched for in target/site/apidocs directory. The -J option allows to override this default location. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_alias(7), mvn_artifact(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_file(7), mvn_package(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_INSTALL(7)
A.8. mvn_package
MVN_PACKAGE(7) Java Packages Tools MVN_PACKAGE(7) NAME mvn_package - specify target package for Maven artifact(s) SYNOPSIS %mvn_package artifact-coordinates [target-package] DESCRIPTION mvn_package macro causes instructions for artifact installation to be added to XMvn reactor configuration. It is used to specify target package to which Maven artifacts should be installed. Specified artifact coordinates must match at least one artifact. If not then behavior is unspecified. It is possible to specify artifact coordinates matching multiple artifacts, so one call to mvn_package can affect installation of more than one artifact. OPERANDS artifact-coordinates Artifact coordinates specify artifact(s) that this rule applies to. Coordinates are in format groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]][:version]. If extension is specified then version must be specified too. If any part is omitted or equal to empty string then it matches any string. Wildcards and brace expansions are supported in each part. For more information see XMvn Configuration Reference. target-package Name of target (sub-)package to which matching artifacts will be installed. Backreferences are supported in form @n, where n is an integer corresponding to brace in artifact-coordinates. A special value of noinstall means that matching artifact(s) should not be installed to any package. Special value of default means that matching artifact(s) should be installed into main package. If target-package is omitted value of __default is assumed. AUTHOR Originally written by Mikolaj Izdebski. Versions 3.0.0 and later were written by Stanislav Ochotnicky. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO gradle_build(7), mvn_alias(7), mvn_build(7), mvn_compat_version(7), mvn_config(7), mvn_file(7), xmvn(1). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 MVN_PACKAGE(7)
A.9. pom_add_dep
POM_ADD_DEP(7) Java Packages Tools POM_ADD_DEP(7) NAME pom_add_dep - add dependency to Maven POM file or Ivy module SYNOPSIS %pom_add_dep groupId:artifactId[:version[:scope]] [POM-location]... [extra-XML] %pom_add_dep org:name[:rev[:conf[:transitive]]] [Ivy-module-location]... [extra-XML] %pom_add_dep_mgmt groupId:articId[:version[:scope]] [POM-location]... [extra-XML] DESCRIPTION These macros patch specified POM or Ivy file adding a dependency on given Maven artifact specified by artifact coordinates. pom_add_dep adds the dependency to <dependencies> XML node, while pom_add_dep_mgmt adds it to <dependencyManagement>. groupId and artifactId are identifiers of Maven artifact on which dependency is to be added. They must be specified. If version is not specified then default value of "any" is used. If scope is not specified then no scope is defined (Maven defaults to "compile" in this case). When modifying Ivy modules, the org, name and rev correspond to the Maven groupId and artifactId and version. Org and name must be specified, other attributes use defaults. The conf attribute specifies the configuration in which the dependency should apply. The transitive attribute specifies whether the dependency should also pull in it’s dependencies. It accepts boolean values - true or false. When unspecified Ivy defaults to true. POM location can be either a full path to the POM or Ivy file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. Extra XML is additional XML code to be added into the <dependency> node. This parameter can be ommited, in which case no extra XML is appended. EXAMPLES %pom_add_dep foo:bar baz - this call adds dependency on artifact foo:bar to baz/pom.xml file. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_ADD_DEP(7)
A.10. pom_add_parent
POM_ADD_PARENT(7) Java Packages Tools POM_ADD_PARENT(7) NAME pom_add_parent - add parent POM reference to POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_add_parent groupId:artifactId[:version] [POM-location]... DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file adding a reference to parent POM with specified groupId, artifactId and version. groupId and artifactId are identifiers of Maven group and artifact of the POM to be referenced as parent POM. They must be specified. If version is not specified then default value of "any" is used. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. EXAMPLES %pom_add_parent foo:bar baz - this call adds reference to parent POM artifact foo:bar to baz/pom.xml file. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_ADD_PARENT(7)
A.11. pom_add_plugin
POM_ADD_PLUGIN(7) Java Packages Tools POM_ADD_PLUGIN(7) NAME pom_add_plugin - add plugin invocation to POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_add_plugin groupId:artifactId[:version] [POM-location]... [extra-XML] DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file adding plugin invocation of given groupId and artifactId. groupId and artifactId are identifiers of Maven plugin artifact of which invocation is to be added. groupId may be ommited, in which case value of "org.apache.maven.plugins" is used as default. artifactId must be specified. If version is not specified then default value of "any" is used. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. Extra XML is additional XML code to be added into the <plugin> node. This parameter can be ommited, in which case no extra XML is appended. EXAMPLES %pom_add_plugin com.example:plugin foo - this call adds invocation of plugin com.example:plugin to foo/pom.xml. %pom_add_plugin :maven-compiler-plugin . "<target>1.5</target>" - this call adds invocation of Maven Compiler Plugin with target configured to 1.5. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_ADD_PLUGIN(7)
A.12. pom_change_dep
POM_CHANGE_DEP(7) Java Packages Tools POM_CHANGE_DEP(7) NAME pom_change_dep - change dependency in Maven POM file or Ivy module SYNOPSIS %pom_change_dep [OPTIONS] SOURCE_ARTIFACT CHANGED_ARTIFACT [POM-location]... [extra-XML] %pom_change_dep [OPTIONS] SOURCE_ARTIFACT CHANGED_ARTIFACT [Ivy-module-location]... [extra-XML] OPTIONS -r Work in recursive mode. That means that given dependency is also changed in all enabled submodules of given POM file(s). Has no effect if the file is not Maven POM. -f Do not throw an error when one of the specified files doesn’t contain given dependency. DESCRIPTION These macros patch specified POM or Ivy file changing a dependency on given Maven artifact specified by artifact coordinates to artifact specified by second set of Maven coordinates. The artifact specification has same format as %pom_add_dep. The omitted or empty parts in second artifact specification cause the original value to be left unmodified. Supplying a special value of - for given part causes that part of artifact specification to be deleted. POM location can be either a full path to the POM or Ivy file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. Extra XML is additional XML code to be added into the <dependency> node. This parameter can be ommited, in which case no extra XML is appended. EXAMPLES pom_change_dep foo: com.example.foo: - this call changes groupId of all dependencies which have groupId foo to com.example.foo. Their artifactId, versions and other possible parts are left unmodified. AUTHOR Written by Michael Simacek. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_CHANGE_DEP(7)
A.13. pom_disable_module
POM_DISABLE_MODULE(7) Java Packages Tools POM_DISABLE_MODULE(7) NAME pom_disable_module - disable given project module in POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_disable_module module-name [POM-location]... DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file not to contain reference to given project module. Module name is the exact name of the module to be disabled. It must not be ommited. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. EXAMPLES %pom_disable_module nonfree - this call removes aggregated module nonfree from POM file in current working directory. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_DISABLE_MODULE(7)
A.14. pom_remove_dep
POM_REMOVE_DEP(7) Java Packages Tools POM_REMOVE_DEP(7) NAME pom_remove_dep - remove dependency on Maven artifact from POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_remove_dep [OPTIONS] [groupId]:[artifactId][:version[:scope]] [POM-location]... %pom_remove_dep [OPTIONS] [org]:[name][:rev[:conf[:transitive]]] [Ivy-module-location]... OPTIONS -r Work in recursive mode. That means that dependency is also removed from all enabled submodules of given POM file(s). -f Do not throw an error when one of the specified files doesn’t contain given dependency. DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file not to contain dependencies on given Maven artifact. groupId and artifactId are identifiers of Maven group and artifact of the module on which dependency is to be removed. If they are ommited then all identifiers are matched. When modifying Ivy modules, the org and name correspond to the Maven groupId and artifactId. POM location can be either a full path to the POM or Ivy file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations. If the dependency is not found in all of given files, the command raises an error. This can be overriden with the -f option. EXAMPLES %pom_remove_dep com.example: - this call removes dependency on all artifacts with groupId com.example from POM in current working directory. %pom_remove_dep boo:bar target/location - this call removes dependency on artifacts with groupId foo and artifactId bar from target/location/pom.xml. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_REMOVE_DEP(7)
A.15. pom_remove_parent
POM_REMOVE_PARENT(7) Java Packages Tools POM_REMOVE_PARENT(7) NAME pom_remove_parent - remove parent POM reference from POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_remove_parent [POM-location]... DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file removing reference to parent POM. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. EXAMPLES %pom_remove_parent target/location - this call removes parent POM reference from target/location/pom.xml. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_REMOVE_PARENT(7)
A.16. pom_remove_plugin
POM_REMOVE_PLUGIN(7) Java Packages Tools POM_REMOVE_PLUGIN(7) NAME pom_remove_plugin - remove Maven plugin invocation from POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_remove_plugin [OPTIONS] [groupId]:[artifactId][:version[:scope]] [POM-location]... OPTIONS -r Work in recursive mode. That means that plugin is also removed from all enabled submodules of given POM file(s). -f Do not throw an error when one of the specified files doesn’t contain given dependency. DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file not to contain invocations of given Maven plugin. groupId and artifactId are identifiers of Maven group and artifact of the plugin which invocation is to be removed. If they are ommited then all identifiers are matched. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. You can specify more file locations. EXAMPLES %pom_remove_plugin :maven-shade-plugin - this call removes invocation of Maven Shade Plugin from POM in current working directory. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_REMOVE_PLUGIN(7)
A.17. pom_set_parent
POM_SET_PARENT(7) Java Packages Tools POM_SET_PARENT(7) NAME pom_set_parent - set parent POM reference in POM file SYNOPSIS %pom_set_parent groupId:artifactId[:version] [POM-location]... DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file setting reference to parent POM to specified groupId, artifactId and version. This macros first removes parent POM reference and then adds a new one. It’s (more or less) equivalent to call to %pom_remove_parent followed by invocation of %pom_add_parent. See pom_remove_parent(7) and pom_add_parent(7) for more information about parameters. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. EXAMPLES %pom_set_parent com.example:example-parent module - this call sets parent POM of module/pom.xml to com.example:example-parent. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_SET_PARENT(7)
A.18. pom_xpath_disable
POM_XPATH_DISABLE(7) Java Packages Tools POM_XPATH_DISABLE(7) NAME pom_xpath_disable - Disable all modules whose POM files satisfy given XPath condition SYNOPSIS %pom_xpath_disable XPath-expression [POM-location]... DESCRIPTION This macro recursively walks all enabled submodules of given POM and evaluates given XPath expression on them. If the expression returns a true value, matching submodule is disabled. Values considered true are defined by XPath specification as either true boolean value (i.e. returned by comparisons), non-empty node set, non-empty string or non-zero number. If the main module (specified by POM-location or pom.xml by default) also satisfies the condition, processing is aborted prior to making any changes and an error is raised. When none of the modules satisfy it, an error is also raised. POM location can be either a full path to the POM file, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml. If POM location is not given then pom.xml from current working directory is used. You can specify more file locations which will be processed. EXAMPLES %pom_xpath_disable "/pom:project/pom:classifier = 'test'" - this call disables all modules with classifier test %pom_xpath_disable /pom:project/pom:packaging - this call disables all sumbodules that explicitly specify packaging AUTHOR Written by Michael Simacek. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). pom_disable_module(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_XPATH_DISABLE(7)
A.19. pom_xpath_inject
POM_XPATH_INJECT(7) Java Packages Tools POM_XPATH_INJECT(7) NAME pom_xpath_inject - inject code into XML file SYNOPSIS %pom_xpath_inject XPath XML-code [XML-file-location]... DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified XML file appending given code as children of all XML nodes described by the XPath expression. XPath is an expression describing a set of XML nodes in the XML file to which child code is to be appended. It must be a properly formated XPath 1.0 expression, as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/. Maven POM files use specific XML namespace http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 as default. This namespace needs to be explicitly specified in XPath expressions by prefixing all node names with pom: (i.e. pom:modelVersion). Many other XML formats also use namespaces which you have to explicitly specify. This script will use the namespace prefix names from the xmlns declarations in the document’s root element. So if the document begins with <root xmlns:my="myurl.com"> you would select the root node with XPath expression /my:root. If the document specifies a default namespace (e.g. xmlns="myurl.com") use the prefix named default to acces elements in that namespace. XML location can be either a full path to the XML, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If XML location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations. EXAMPLES %pom_xpath_inject pom:project "<packaging>war</packaging>" - this call sets packaging of POM in current working directory to war. %pom_xpath inject configurations '<conf name="test"/>' - this adds a new configuration to the Ivy file in current working directory. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_XPATH_INJECT(7)
A.20. pom_xpath_remove
POM_XPATH_REMOVE(7) Java Packages Tools POM_XPATH_REMOVE(7) NAME pom_xpath_remove - remove a node from XML file SYNOPSIS %pom_xpath_remove [OPTIONS] XPath [XML-file-location]... OPTIONS -r Work in recursive mode. That means that given node is also removed from all enabled submodules of given POM file(s). Has no effect if the file is not Maven POM. -f Do not throw an error when one of the specified files doesn’t contain given node. DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file removing all XML nodes described by the XPath expression. This also works on attributes and text nodes. XPath is an expression describing a set of XML nodes to be removed from the POM file. It must be a properly formated XPath 1.0 expression, as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/. Maven POM files use specific XML namespace http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 as default. This namespace needs to be explicitly specified in XPath expressions by prefixing all node names with pom (i.e. pom:modelVersion). Many other XML formats also use namespaces which you have to explicitly specify. This script will use the namespace prefix names from the xmlns declarations in the document’s root element. So if the document begins with <root xmlns:my="myurl.com"> you would select the root node with XPath expression /my:root. If the document specifies a default namespace (eg xmlns="myurl.com") use the prefix named default to acces elements in that namespace. XML location can be either a full path to the XML, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If XML location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations. EXAMPLES %pom_xpath_remove pom:project/pom:reporting - this call removes reporting section from POM in current working directory. %pom_xpath_remove 'ivy:configure' build.xml - this call disables loading of ivy configuration in build.xml file. Note the use of ivy namespace which was declared in the document as xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant". AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_replace(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_XPATH_REMOVE(7)
A.21. pom_xpath_replace
POM_XPATH_REPLACE(7) Java Packages Tools POM_XPATH_REPLACE(7) NAME pom_xpath_replace - replace XML node from XML file with given code SYNOPSIS %pom_xpath_replace XPath XML-code [XML-file-location]... OPTIONS -r Work in recursive mode. That means that given node is also replaced in all enabled submodules of given POM file(s). Has no effect if the file is not Maven POM. -f Do not throw an error when one of the specified files doesn’t contain given node. DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file removing all XML nodes described by the XPath expression and injecting given XML code in their place. XPath is an expression describing a set of XML nodes to be removed from the POM file. It must be a properly formated XPath 1.0 expression, as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/. Maven POM files use specific XML namespace http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 as default. This namespace needs to be explicitly specified in XPath expressions by prefixing all node names with pom (i.e. pom:modelVersion). Many other XML formats also use namespaces which you have to explicitly specify. This script will use the namespace prefix names from the xmlns declarations in the document’s root element. So if the document begins with <root xmlns:my="myurl.com"> you would select the root node with XPath expression /my:root. If the document specifies a default namespace (eg xmlns="myurl.com") use the prefix named default to acces elements in that namespace. XML location can be either a full path to the XML, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If XML location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_change_dep(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_set(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_XPATH_REPLACE(7)
A.22. pom_xpath_set
POM_XPATH_SET(7) Java Packages Tools POM_XPATH_SET(7) NAME pom_xpath_set - set contents of XML node from XML file SYNOPSIS %pom_xpath_set XPath new-contents [XML-file-location] DESCRIPTION This macro patches specified POM file replacing contents of all XML nodes described by the XPath expression with given new text content. This works on both elements and attributes. XPath is an expression describing a set of XML nodes to be removed from the POM file. It must be a properly formated XPath 1.0 expression, as described in http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/. Maven POM files use specific XML namespace http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 as default. This namespace needs to be explicitly specified in XPath expressions by prefixing all node names with pom (i.e. pom:modelVersion). Many other XML formats also use namespaces which you have to explicitly specify. This script will use the namespace prefix names from the xmlns declarations in the document’s root element. So if the document begins with <root xmlns:my="myurl.com"> you would select the root node with XPath expression /my:root. If the document specifies a default namespace (eg xmlns="myurl.com") use the prefix named default to acces elements in that namespace. XML location can be either a full path to the XML, or a path to the directory containing pom.xml or ivy.xml. If XML location is not given then pom.xml or ivy.xml from current working directory is used. When both pom.xml and ivy.xml are present, pom.xml is processed. You can specify more file locations. AUTHOR Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. REPORTING BUGS Bugs should be reported through Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github: https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues. SEE ALSO pom_add_dep(7), pom_add_parent(7), pom_add_plugin(7), pom_disable_module(7), pom_remove_dep(7), pom_remove_parent(7), pom_remove_plugin(7), pom_set_parent(7), pom_xpath_inject(7), pom_xpath_remove(7), pom_xpath_replace(7). JAVAPACKAGES 01/25/2023 POM_XPATH_SET(7)