maven generating pom file
This is an old question, but was a serious PITA for me for a few minutes, so I thought I'd share:
I just ran into this problem, and I believe that the issue is probably platform-dependent. The real tip-off was that the solution from Cyril's answer wasn't working as expected: despite my specification of -DgroupId=com.xyz
and -DartifactId=whatever
on the command-line and the corresponding entry in the POM file, the jar was installed in the local repo under com/whatever
.
This led me to experiment with quoting command-line arguments, and the eventual correct result from formatting the command-line like this (after deleting the POM file):
mvn install:install-file "-Dfile=cobra.jar" "-DgroupId=com.cobra" "-DartifactId=cobra" "-Dversion=0.98.4" "-Dpackaging=jar" "-DgeneratePom=true"
Some of the quoting is doubtless redundant, but better safe than sorry, right? I happen to be running Vista on this computer, and would not be surprised if this problem were specific to this OS version...by the way, this was with Maven v3.0.4.
Are you sure that you are executing the install-file
goal? I checked your command and it works for me, but when I place a blank install :install-file
(maybe you have this typo) the install
goal would be used which needs a pom.xml.
Try to use the -X
parameter to get more debug information:
-X,--debug Produce execution debug output
My system
Maven
c:\>mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 18:31:09+0100)
Maven home: C:\progs\apache-maven-3.0.3
Java version: 1.6.0_21, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: c:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre
Default locale: de_DE, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "x86", family: "windows"
Install Plugin
c:\>mvn -Dplugin=install help:describe
Name: Maven Install Plugin
Description: Copies the project artifacts to the user's local repository.
Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact Id: maven-install-plugin
Version: 2.3.1
Goal Prefix: install
This plugin has 3 goals:
install:help
Description: Display help information on maven-install-plugin.
Call
mvn install:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>
to display parameter details.
install:install
Description: Installs the project's main artifact in the local repository.
install:install-file
Description: Installs a file in the local repository.
For more information, run 'mvn help:describe [...] -Ddetail'