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Use JAXB with plexus-compiler-eclipse plugin in maven profile

I am working on a project where we want to use the plexus-compiler-eclipse plugin during a Jenkins pipeline to check for increases in the number of warnings generated by the Eclipse compiler. We still want to use the javac compiler for the normal build and test stage, so I am trying to create a maven profile we can run during the warnings stage that utilizes the Eclipse compiler.
When I run the Eclipse compiler over our code, I get a compile error about JAXB dependencies being missing. I know this is due to our move to Java 11 from Java 1.8, but we do not get this error when building with the javac compiler. I have tried adding the jakarta.xml.bind-api dependency to the maven-compiler-plugin, but this does not help, nor does adding the org.glassfish.jaxb dependency or the javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api dependency.
I cannot share the full pom because this project is proprietary, but the profile I'm building looks like this:
<profile>
<id>eclipse-compile</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1></version>
<configuration>
<compilerId>eclipse</compilerId>
<source>${java.version}</source>
<target>${java.version}</target>
<compilerArguments>
<properties>${project.basedir}/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs</properties>
</compilerArguments>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
<artifactId>plexus-compiler-eclipse</artifactId>
<version>2.8.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.eclipse.jdt</groupId>
<artifactId>ecj</artifactId>
<version>3.25.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</profile>
I was putting the various JAXB dependencies I tried in the <dependencies> section under the org.eclipse.jdt entry.
Anyone else encounter this or know what to do about it?

The issue stemmed from the Maven build running in Java 11 but our normal compile stage forking to a Java 1.8 executable. Because the Plexus compiler cannot fork to a new environment, there was not a way for it to access the Java EE dependencies. We just need to update our entire project to be compatible with Java 11 at compile-time.

maven compiler in intellij

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<release>11</release>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
What is the point of using maven in intellij if it dose not work without setting the correct JDK under various intellij options?
What I mean is that now with intellij I have to set the JDK in 3 different places.
File->Setting->Build->Compiler
File->Project Structure->Project
File->Project Structure->Modules
While I aspect expect that when i compiler on the right side where are the maven options it works just by watching the pom file.

i think that depends on what type of project you want to make but personally i find maven nice to use because you can set up several actions in the pom file (for example when compiling Less files, excluding them from the build and just using the resulting css files).
another feature would be the easy way to add dependency's from the maven rep http://mvnrepository.com/

Maven: how to do runable jar (uberjar) with included external libraries

Until now i made runnable jars with Ant and there were no problems with it.
However i now try to mavenize my project and i realy can't figured out how to do runable jar with this tool.
I've read tons of tutorials (also here, on Stackoverflow), helps, advices and... nothing. In my case all of them don't work which probably means i don't understand some basics.
I have such simple project:
This is app, witch use mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar (placed in 'lib' dir) to connect to MySQL database.
I want to include this jar into final jar (DBPreformatter.jar).
I used assembly and shaded plugins in many configurations, but they NEVER added this jar into DBPreformatter.jar.
This is my pom.xml:
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.icd4you</groupId>
<artifactId>DBPreformatter</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<name>DBPreformatter</name>
<description>DB processing and cleaning tool</description>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin</artifactId>
<version>5.1.24</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.24-bin.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- WHAT SHOULD I USE HERE? -->
</plugins>
</build>
How to solve this problem?

There is a maven plugin Apache Maven Shade Plugin that will build an uber jar for you

Add the Maven Assembly plugin with the descriptor jar-with-dependencies:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.pany.your.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Note that this doesn't add the JAR; instead it unpacks all JARs which are listed as dependencies and adds their content to the resulting JAR (so you'll see all the class files from the MySQL JAR in the result instead of the MySQL JAR itself).
EDIT There is a caveat, though: Maven ignores JARs with scope=system for many operations. See also: How to include external jars in maven jar build process?
If Maven doesn't add the JAR to the output, then you must install all JARs with this scope into your local maven repo ($HOME/.m2/repository) using the mvn install:file-install command. See http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/usage.html how to do that.
Note: Installing libraries in your local repo is the preferred way; you should really consider it. For one, the scope=system will no longer confuse you (since many plugins handle them in a special way). Plus you need to do this only once. Afterwards, you can use this library in many Maven projects.
Before installing, you should check http://search.maven.org/ to see if the dependency isn't already known to Maven.
MySQL is: http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails%7Cmysql%7Cmysql-connector-java%7C5.1.32%7Cjar

Issus with building the java project using maven2

I am using maven2 to build the java project, when i issue the command mvn clean install i am getting the error could not parse error message: (use -source 5 or higher to enable generics).
In my eclipse environment i am using jdk 1.7 and the project is working fine. when i want to build the project i am unable to do that, think maven is taking java version 1.3 as default.
Any one please help me how to set the jdk versio to 1.7 in maven, to build the project successfully..
Apart from the jars mentioned in pom.xml i want to add add my own jar, how can i specify that in pom xml?
Thanks in advance..

In your pom.xml configure the maven-compiler-plugin to use 1.6:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Publish test utils from maven project

I created a library in maven that can be extended by implementing some interfaces. To test the default implementation I have written some hamcrest matchers that currently live in src/test/java.
However, I think they might be useful for users of the library if they want to test their customization.
So how can I make them available? Moving them to src/main would require to make hamcrest a runtime dependency and I don't want that.

There is a way to create a test jar and install it into the repository using the command 'mvn jar:test-jar'. This jar can then be referenced by other projects using the test-jar modifier in the dependency block.
If you want to have this jar built and installed as part of your your normal 'mvn install' build add the following plugin config to your pom:
From http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-attached-tests.html
<project>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>test-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Then other projects can reference the test jar as follows:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.myco.app</groupId>
<artifactId>foo</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<type>test-jar</type>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

As you said, move it to src/main in a new project. Let that project only be used in a test dependency and you don't pollute your module's classpath.

It sounds like you need to move them to their own project and release it. From there you can determine in the original project what scope you'd like.