Complie issue with Custom GWT project strcuture - gwt

I am working on a gwt module that is built using maven build system. I
had a working module that had the following project structure.
project-name/src/main/java/pkg1/pkg2/pkg3/EntryPoingClass
project-name/src/man/resources/pkg1/pkg2/ModuleDef.gwt.xml
The module definition was looking like this (I have put only this
project specific settings here...normal inherits are not specified for
the sake of brevity)
... <entry-point class='pkg1.pkg2.pkg3.EntryPointClass'/>
<source path='pkg3'/>...
I am not a big fan of having sub packages in the resources folder.
Hence I am trying to change it to something like the following
project-name/src/main/java/pkg1/pkg2/pkg3/EntryPoingClass project-name/src/man/resources/ModuleDef.gwt.xml
Also changed the module definition to
... <entry-point class='pkg1.pkg2.pkg3.EntryPointClass'/>
<source path='pkg1.pkg2.pkg3'/> <!-- Since the module def is not
inside any package I am specifying the entire 'client' package here --> ...
After this, invoking gwt compile fails with the following error
Unable to find type "pkg1.pkg2.pkg3.EntryPointClass"
Can anybody tell me if there is any relation between the package
structure of the EntryPointClass and the module definition package
structure apart from the fact that the EntryPointClass should be
inside the 'client' package specified in the module definition (which
is satisfied here)?
Btw, I could see that the compiled classes are available in the
classpath when invoking the gwt compiler.
Any help in this regard is greatly appreciated.

GWT compiler needs sources of client side classes, not only compiled bytecode. Is it in classpath?
In my company we always set pom.xml to copy sources to target as resources:
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/java</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/client/**/*.java</include>
<include>**/*.gwt.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
Change **/client/**/*.java to anything satisfies your needs (probably pkg1/pkg2/pkg3/**/*.java). This way sources of client part are always in classpath.

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p2-maven-plugin -- bundle conflicts with other existing bundle

I’m starting to use the p2-maven-plugin in order to integrate non-OSGi JARs into our project in a (hopefully) convenient manner.
I have an artifact which I want to OSGi-ify, called com.thirdparty.artifact. I’m current using p2-maven-plugin’s standard configuration, and I list my artifact in the pom.xml like so:
<artifact><id>com.thirdparty:artifact:1.2.3</id></artifact>
This artifact has a transitive dependency called com.thirdparty:library:2.5, which exports a package com.thirdparty.library which is in turn imported by com.thirdparty:artifact. When I run mvn p2:site, I get a P2 site which contains com.thirdparty:artifact:1.2.3 and com.thirdparty:library:2.5 -- all fine so far.
Now, things are turning messy. My existing target platform already contains an artifact called com.othervendor:library (different vendor, it’s there and I cannot change that), which also exports the very same package com.thirdparty.library (but an entirely different version).
At runtime, the OSGi/Eclipse black magic (which I’ll probably never fully understand) tries to resolve com.thirdparty:artifact’s dependency on the package com.thirdparty.library using the com.othervendor:library and not my provided com.thirdparty:library:2.5 -- and I’m obviously in trouble. Here’s a visualization of my situation:
Being absolutely no OSGi rocket scientist, my first idea was to inspect the MANIFEST.MF in com.thirdparty:artifact. Beside others, this shows the following:
Import-Package: com.thirdparty.library
So, this obviously just tells com.thirdparty:artifact to import this package from some bundle, and OSGi/Eclipse thinks “okay, com.othervendor:library is more adequate than com.thirdparty:library”.
There seem to be two methods of narrowing down the dependencies to actually use. However: I’m not sure (a) how to integrate them into my p2-maven-plugin workflow, and (b) I do not understand why p2-maven-plugin does not automatically require the concrete package version in the Import-Package directive (this information is after all already specified in the source pom.xml).
Probably I’m not seeing the forest for the trees here. So any general advice beside my questions above is very welcome!
[edit] Here’s my pom.xml (the concrete library which I’m about to OSGi-ify is Selenium):
<project>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>com.example.p2dependencies</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.reficio</groupId>
<artifactId>p2-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-cli</id>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact><id>org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.4.0</id></artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
[edit2] Problem seems to be solved, it seems, the issue was an additional package which was only exported by com.othervendor:library.

Replace class files before maven assembly

I'm facing a very unique situation and need some advice:
I'm working on a project which depends on an other project from my same company and now I need to apply some modifications to the dependency.
The problem which I have is that the source code from the dependency has been lost, so the only thing I have is a maven dependency in the repository, with the corresponding jar file.
On top of that, some of the classes in the Jar file where created using JiBX parser, mapping some XSD files which I neither have, and the resulting classes are synthetic and I found no decompiler able to handle them properly.
The only good thing of all of that is that the class which I need to change can be properly decompiled, so went for the following:
I decompiled the whole jar file and ended up with some classes (the
JiBx ones) with empty or wrongly implemented methods.
I commented out the body of the wrong methods to have stub objects, applied the required changes to the right classes and recompiled.
I took the old Jar file, opened it and manually replaced the old class with the new one.
And the resulting Jar worked as expected.
Now my question is: Can I do all of that using Maven?
The idea would be to put the JiBX class files as resources, and keep the stub equivalents as source files and then let maven:
Compile everything as usual, putting all the compiled class files
into target folder
Remove stub class files from target folder and replace them with the old precompiled class files
package the jar.
Which approach would you recommend?
UPDATE
I give some more details about the dependency project structure:
All classes are inside the same package:
my.project.domain.JiBX__c_GeneratedObfuscatedClass1.java
my.project.domain.JiBX__c_GeneratedObfuscatedClass2.java
my.project.domain.JiBX__c_GeneratedObfuscatedClass3.java
my.project.domain.CustomizableClass1.java
my.project.domain.CustomizableClass2.java
my.project.domain.CustomizableClass3.java
JiBX classes are not imported properly as dependency and if I try to put any of the CustmizableClasses into the project source and let the JiBX ones be in a dependency, the compiler reports missing methods.
I also tried using the Shade Plugin as suggested, but since I need to include the JiBX classes into my source path, I will end up having to include into package JiBX classes from jar dependency and compiled CustomizableClasses, but skipping CustomizableClasses from jar dep and compiled JiBX classes.
I looks like it can work, but I admit that I still didn't find the way of doing it.
Any clues will be very welcomed.
UPDATE 2 (RESOLUTION)
I explain here how I finally managed this using the shade plugin as suggested, just in case someone else needs to do the same:
I finally created a project with the decompiled classes inside the same package, and left the methods which didn't want to be decompiled commented out.
In the pom.xml I added the following:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactSet>
<includes>
<include>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</include>
<include>TheDamnedProject:WithoutSources</include>
</includes>
</artifactSet>
<filters>
<filter>
<artifact>TheDamnedProject:WithoutSources</artifact>
<includes>
<!-- These classes will be taken directly from dependency JAR -->
<include>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled1.class</include>
<include>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled2.class</include>
<include>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled3.class</include>
<include>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled4.class</include>
</includes>
</filter>
<filter>
<artifact>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</artifact>
<excludes>
<!-- These classes will be overridden by the ones inside the JAR -->
<exclude>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled1.class</exclude>
<exclude>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled2.class</exclude>
<exclude>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled3.class</exclude>
<exclude>my/package/ClassWhichCouldNotBeDecompiled4.class</exclude>
</excludes>
</filter>
</filters>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
thanks!
Carles
Here's how I would do that:
Create a new Maven project for this Jar file, with packaging type jar
Include the original Jar file as a dependency
Add the one decompiled .java file in the src folder
This should get you to a point where the .java file can be compiled, since the other classes from the jar file are available.
You now have two Jar files: one original, and one that should just contain the single recompiled and changed class.
Adding both to your application class path might work, but will depend on the order on the classpath.
If you want to end up with one jar file, I recommend to take a look at the Maven Shade Plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/), which will allow you to create a new Jar file with contents from multiple sources. It will allow you to filter what goes into the new Jar file.
The Maven Shade plugin allows you to specify which classes from each artifact are included. It uses wildcards and include/exclude tags for this, as described here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/examples/includes-excludes.html
Once that Jar file is created, I would release it using the Maven Release plugin, and then include that artifact downstream. This will allow you to only update the patched Jar when it is really required, it probably doesn't have to be on every build. But that depends on your usage pattern.
For the version number of the new Jar file, I recommend to use a variation of the original one. Use the same groupId and artifactId, then modify the version number. If the original has 1.0.2, your new, patched file should be released as 1.0.2-1, to indicate that it's based on the 1.0.2 sources. If you need to make an additional change, release that as 1.0.2-2 and so on. This will make it easy to understand which version your patches are based on, and the incrementing patch number will give you a means to distinguis the releases.

GWT. Maven. GWT Module <module_name> not found in project sources or resources

I have a maven multi-module project. One of this modules (compiled as .jar) contains only domain objects, which will be used at client and server sides (I add this .jar as dependency to other my modules).
I know that GWT module, where will be used objects from shared .jar, must also have source files for successful compilation. So I tried to add to my pom.xml both:
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/java/<path></directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*.java</include>
<include>**/*.gwt.xml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
and
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<versionRange>[${gwt.version}]</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
</goals>
<plugin>
But resulting .jar don't contain GWT module source (i.e gwt.xml). All sources of domain classes are added as well (at root directory of .jar), but ModuleName.gwt.xml not.
Where is problem? Thanks.
If your .gwt.xml file is in src/main/resources/ then it won't get copied if you specify src/main/java/ as the resource path...
You should probably omit the <resource> section and let the GWT plugin include the source in the jar or at least have two sections, one for the .gwt.xml file (src/main/resources or where you put it) and one for the source code (as you have it now).
Cheers,
I was troubleshooting this error today so I'm just posting my fix:
Multi-module gwt project being build with the maven gwt plugin needs an entry in the pom.xml like:
<modules>
<module>../theothermodule</module>
</modules>
In order to compile.
This error have multiple explanations. Check list:
if you are referencing a gwt module you need to point to the *.gwt.xml file in dot notation without the file extension. E.g. com.example.ThirdParty refers to com/example/ThirdParty.gwt.xml module
to import the 3rd party module, add <inherits name="com.example.ThirdParty" /> to your *.gwt.xml file
the ThirdParty.gwt.xml should contain one or more source elements pointing to translatable code. E.g. <source path='shared' />.
all translatable code in ThirdParty.jar needs to include plaintext *.java sources. E.g. com/example/shared/Widget.class and com/example/shared/Widget.java are both present
the ThirdParty.jar is on your classpath
Notes:
if the ThirdParty gwt module does not have entry point it does not need to be compiled with gwt compiler
the gwt compiler does not require extra configuration to include the ThirdParty module as long as its jar is on classpath and your *.gwt.xml inherits ThirdParty.gwt.xml; the same applies to the gwt maven plugin

Mwe2Launcher - Couldn't find module

I constantly get:
mf.mwe2.launch.runtime.Mwe2Launcher - Couldn't find module x
error though the x.mwe2 file exists. I have enabled the xtext nature to the project and added related modules.
here's the .mwe2 file:
module com.ford.modelling.workflow.abcd
Workflow {
component = SayHello {
message = "hello"
}
}
What might be the problem? (a folder named src-gen already exists)
please make sure that the mwe2 file is placed in a java source folder and that you did a clean build on the project the mwe2 file is contained.
Had the same problem. The exception however occurs in the Mwe2Runner, not the Mwe2Launcher. The Mwe2Runner tried to load the mwe2 file as a resource and produces that error if it can't find it, although the Mwe2Launcher can.
Anyway, solution is to register your src-dir as a resource-dir by adding the following to your pom.xml
<build>
...
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
...
</build>
OK. I've found the problem (though not a solution yet).
Enabling scala nature halts the build process of MWE2. Can't figure out why but this is what happens. I remove the Scala nature and everything works.

Missing package property files in war build

Littered throughout my project are various property files located in packages that are not being included when the package goal is run from a Maven build.
Using the 0.10.2 m2eclipse plugin and the default "package" goal.
In the project:
src->main->java->mypackage->MyProperties.java
src->main->java->mypackage->MyProperties.properties
In expanded war directory after the "package" goal is run:
target->classes->mypackage->MyProperties.class
-- no property file --
I'm trying to get the group to adopt Maven and resolving this issue is going to be a deal maker. Moving the properties files isn't going to be practical. Any help is much appreciated.
Put your property files where Application/Library resources belong, i.e. in src/main/resources:
src/main/resources/mypackage/MyProperties.properties
And it will get copied properly.
Pascal's answer is the correct maven way of doing things.
But some developers like to keep resources next to their sources (it's standard procedure in wicket, for example).
If you're going to do that, you will have to add your source folder to the resources:
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/java</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>