Run mvn package with multiple modules containing independent pom files without public repository

Recently i need to build a java application which must be built with dependencies from several different modules, each having their own pom files that packages them into jar. As these files are not distributed from a public repository such as Maven Central and I do not reuse repository system such as Nexus in this case. The modules are in their own folders (with names such as "SK-Utils" "SK-Statistics" "SK-DOM" "OP-Core" "OP-Search" "ML-Core" "ML-Tune" "ML-Clustering" "ML-Trees"). What makes it complicated is that these modules actually have their dependencies specified on each other. E.g., ML-Core depends on "SK-DOM"and "SK-Utils" to build and run unit testing. Running these independent modules using IntelliJ IDE is ok. However, the modules failed to build when build using command lines such as "mvn package". Therefore i wrote a bash scripts which put in the same directory containing the independent modules. The bash script basically run "mvn package" using pom file in each module, then install them to the local repository. The bash script "mvn-build.sh" looks like the following:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
dirArray=( "SK-Utils" "SK-Statistics" "SK-DOM" "OP-Core" "OP-Search" "ML-Core" "ML-Tune" "ML-Clustering" "ML-Trees")
for dirName in "${dirArray[@]}"
do
 echo $dirName
 cd $dirName

 jarPath="target/$dirName-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar"

 if [ -d $jarPath ]; then
     chmod 777 $jarPath
 fi

    mvn package




    mvn install:install-file -Dfile=$jarPath -DgroupId=com.meme -DartifactId=$dirName -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=0.0.1-SNAPSHOT


    cd ..
done

Just run the above script using command such as "sudo ./mvn-build.sh" from its folder should build the multiple module project.

Note that each module should have a plugin like below specified so that the "jar-with-dependencies" jar will be generated.

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.5.2</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                </configuration>

                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>make-assembly</id> 
                        <phase>package</phase> 
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

One more note is that if you are running on environment such as centos linux and encounter "mvn: command not found" when executing "sudo ./mvn-build.sh", it may be due to the fact that the PATH environment variable not in the sudoer, in this case, just run

> sudo env "PATH=$PATH" ./mvn-build.sh