I'm kinda new to maven and have encountered a problem that I can't solve on my own.
I've written a simple module to a big project that tracks git revision number, adds a timestamp and dumps these properties to a .properties file. This project is just a pom.xml file, no java classes, and one project.properties file. I wanted to add this module as a dependency to the main project pom.xml file, but it is rebuild only once (since Maven doesn't detect any changes it doesn't rebuild it again).
How do I force rebuild of this module everytime any module of the project is rebuilt? Can I do this in the project pom.xml file, or do I somehow set this in Jenkins? Or maybe I've approached this problem in a completely wrong way?
Here's the fragment of my pom.xml file:
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- enable ${timestamp} variable -->
<plugin>
<groupId>com.keyboardsamurais.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-timestamp-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<configuration>
<propertyName>timestamp</propertyName>
<timestampPattern>dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm</timestampPattern>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>create</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- enable JGit plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>ru.concerteza.buildnumber</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jgit-buildnumber-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>git-buildnumber</id>
<goals>
<goal>extract-buildnumber</goal>
</goals>
<phase>initialize</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- write project properties to file -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>write-project-properties</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputFile>${basedir}/target/classes/project.properties</outputFile>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Cheers, Jony
