ADF Maven : A little bit of mojo Model project

I was testing the much improved maven stuff in Jdev for my ADF project and found a couple of differences in my produced jar and the ADF ojdeploy produced one.

First I needed to include the xml, jpx and properties stuff in my jar in the build\resources tag:

<resource>
    <directory>src/</directory>
     <includes>
      <include>**/*.xml</include>
       <include>**/*.jpx</include>
      <include>**/*.xcfg</include>
      <include>**/*.properties</include>
    </includes>
</resource>

Then I needed the adfm.xml and oracle.adf.common.services.ResourceService.sva files all the other files where just text files so I am ignoring them for now.

So for this I created a mojo plugin and included it in my build step

 


      <plugin>
        <groupId>za.co.test.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>my-plugins</artifactId>

        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <executions>

          <execution>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>adfJarMetadataGenerator</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

Onto the plugin:
Create a new maven project in Jdev and make surte the packaging is of type maven-plugin.

Then create a java class (your mojo) and extend org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo
The @goal sudo annotation denotes the name of your plugin that you will use in the calling project.

/**
 * This should generate the extra meta data for adf jar projects.
 * @goal adfJarMetadataGenerator
 * @phase compile
 */
public class ADFClassMetaDataGenerator extends AbstractMojo {

The @parameter annotation denotes and xml tag that you can pass data to your mojo from the calling project.http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html

/**
 * @parameter
 */
private String adfmFileName = "classes/adfm.xml";
/**
 * @parameter  expression="${project.build.sourceDirectory}"
 */
private File srcDirectory = new File("src/");
 /**
 * @parameter
 */
private String svaFileName = "classes/oracle.adf.common.services.ResourceService.sva";

You then need an   public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException { method.
This will go though your project and find the location of your Model.jpx file and your bc4j.xcfg this will allow you to generate the adfm.xml.

adfm.xml
      StringBuilder adfmBuilder =
        new StringBuilder("\n").append("\n").append("  
          bc4jFormatName).append("\"/>\n").append("
          "\"/>\n").append("\n");

Then parse the Model.jpx to find all the application modules for the ResourceService.sva.

oracle.adf.common.services.ResourceService.sva
StringBuilder svaBuilder =  new StringBuilder("#:__PROLOG__:ADF_LibraryDependencies:!;ADF_DataControl:ADF_BusComps\n");
      //for each data control
for(DataControl dc : dcs) {
svaBuilder.append("#:ADF_DataControl:oracle.adf.library.rc.appmodules.AppModuleURLDescriptor:0,").append(dc.getAmName()).append(",").append(dc.getDataContolName()).append(",").append(dc.getFormattedJpxFileName()).append("\n");
      }
      svaBuilder.append("#:__EPILOG__:\n").append("oracle.adf.library.rc.dependencies.LibDepsServiceStrategy ADF_LibraryDependencies\n").append("oracle.adf.library.rc.dcxdatacontrols.DataControlServiceStrategy ADF_DataControl\n").append("oracle.adf.library.rc.buscomp.BusCompServiceStrategy ADF_BusComps\n");

Then just create these files and you are done.

Do a clean install and you can now use the generator in any of your projects.

Note: This is still a work in progress hopefully I get time to finish it off and I will publish the plugin. But it should give you a good idea of what to do.