SBT to Maven Converter

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Since most IDEs are only able to import Maven projects, I'd like to generate a POM.xml from an SBT managed project, is there a better way to do it?

Another reason to generate POMs sometimes is that `mvn dependency:tree` usually works properly, but `sbt dependency-tree` often doesn't. It seems to leave off some dependencies. — Ken Williams, Apr 29 '15 at 18:08

score 49 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 12 '18 at 09:27

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Did you try make-pom from sbt?

It generates basic POM for the current project at the ./target. To customize generation, you can override pomExtra, pomIncludeRepository and pomPostProcess at the project definition.

edited Jul 12 '18 at 09:27

Saurabh

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answered Feb 21 '11 at 15:20

Vasil Remeniuk

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I tried make-pom, I think my IDE only reads pom.xml file to import a project, do I need to create it manually? – Sawyer Feb 21 '11 at 15:47
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I use `make-pom` to import SBT projects into Netbeans (that supports only Maven- and Ant-based project out of the box). It has always been taking for me just to run `make-pom`, rename produced artifact definition to `pom.xml`, and move it to the project root (last two steps can be automated in SBT with `pomPostProcess`). – Vasil Remeniuk Feb 21 '11 at 15:50
@VasilRemeniuk I'm having some trouble trying to find how to do those two steps, the [documentation](http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/Publishing.html) says it is a `Node => Node` function. Modifying the root [Node](http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.10.3/index.html#scala.xml.Node) and children should be enough to modify the XML, but: how to move the file? Thank you. – Trylks Aug 09 '15 at 09:58

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '20 at 07:08

There is a very direct way provided by SBT. You can use the below command where your SBT file exixts:

sbt makePom

This will generate the .pom file in the target folder you can search that and rename to pom.xml and keep that file in the location and run mvn clean compile install to get full out of it.

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '11 at 15:53

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Vasil's answer is correct, but for Eclipse and IDEA you can generate IDE metadata more directly using plugins. For IDEA https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea, and for Eclipse https://github.com/musk/SbtEclipsify .

answered Feb 21 '11 at 15:53

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