I don't really know about JBoss and whether there's another way to do this, but you can do it quite simply with GMaven:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven</groupId>
<artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<configuration>
<source>
def sw = new StringWriter()
def xml = new groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder(sw)
xml.module(xmlns:'urn:jboss:module:1.0', name:'ats.platform') {
resources {
project.runtimeClasspathElements.each {
def path = it.find(".*?([\\w\\.-]*\\.jar)") { it[1] }
!path?:'resource-root'(path:path)
}
}
}
println sw
</source>
</configuration>
</plugin>
A couple of things to note:
- That script spits the XML out to stdout, but you can obviously write it to a file or whatever very easily.
- The
runtimeClasspathElements contain absolute paths to the jar, which is why I parse it with a regex. You can adjust the regex to include more of the path or just prepend a string if you need more than just the jar file name.
I've posted a working example on github (it's just a POM) where I've bound the above plugin configuration to the initialize build phase. If you have git, you can clone and run it yourself with:
git clone git://github.com/zzantozz/testbed tmp
cd tmp
mvn -q initialize -pl stackoverflow/7755255-gmaven-to-build-xml-from-classpath
In the sample project, I added jdom 1.0 and dom4j 1.6.1 as dependencies, and here's the output it created:
<module xmlns='urn:jboss:module:1.0' name='ats.platform'>
<resources>
<resource-root path='jdom-1.0.jar' />
<resource-root path='dom4j-1.6.1.jar' />
<resource-root path='xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar' />
<resource-root path='aspectjrt-1.6.11.jar' />
</resources>
</module>
Note: I'm not a groovy expert, so there may be a groovier way to do it, but you can see how easy it is even so.
