Skip a submodule during a Maven build
Maven version 3.2.1 added this feature, you can use the -pl
switch (shortcut for --projects
list) with !
or -
(source) to exclude certain submodules.
mvn -pl '!submodule-to-exclude' install
mvn -pl -submodule-to-exclude install
Be careful in bash the character ! is a special character, so you either have to single quote it (like I did) or escape it with the backslash character.
The syntax to exclude multiple module is the same as the inclusion
mvn -pl '!submodule1,!submodule2' install
mvn -pl -submodule1,-submodule2 install
EDIT Windows does not seem to like the single quotes, but it is necessary in bash ; in Windows, use double quotes (thanks @awilkinson)
mvn -pl "!submodule1,!submodule2" install
Sure, this can be done using profiles. You can do something like the following in your parent pom.xml.
...
<modules>
<module>module1</module>
<module>module2</module>
...
</modules>
...
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>ci</id>
<modules>
<module>module1</module>
<module>module2</module>
...
<module>module-integration-test</module>
</modules>
</profile>
</profiles>
...
In your CI, you would run maven with the ci
profile, i.e. mvn -P ci clean install