Maven-dependency-analyzer-spring is a project mainly written in Java, based on the Apache-2.0 license.
A Maven ProjectDependencyAnalyzer that includes dependencies introduced by bean definitions from a project's Spring XML files
2010-05-09
Last modified: 2010-10-20
This project enhances the Maven Dependency Plugin
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin
by adding support for extracing dependency information from a project's Spring XML files.
When enabled, a project's resources and test resources (usually located in src/main/resources and src/test/resources) will be scanned for Spring XML files and all bean definitions will be considered as project dependencies as well.
Java JDK 1.5+ (both for compiling AND RUNNING the plugin) Maven 2.2.1+ (older versions will probably work as well)
UPDATE : For ease of use I wrapped up a .tgz containing the patched maven-dependency-analyzer / maven-dependency-plugin and maven-dependency-analyzer-spring artifacts. Just extract binaries/patched_plugins_repo.tgz into your Maven repository folder (~/.m2/repository on Unix machines) and you should be good to go.
If you want to do the patching & compiling yourself (which I recommend since that way you can alter the pom files and assign your own custom version numbers to the patched plugin/components to avoid mixups etc. ... relying on SNAPSHOT versions is generally a bad idea).
To actually get the maven-dependency-plugin to support this extension:
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/shared/tags/maven-dependency-analyzer-1.1 maven-dependency-analyzer cd maven-dependency-analyzer patch -p0 -F3 <maven-dependency-analyzer_1.1.patch mvn install
svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugins/tags/maven-dependency-plugin-2.1 maven-dependency-plugin cd maven-dependency-plugin patch -p0 <maven-dependency-plugin_2.1.patch mvn install
cd maven-dependency-analyzer-spring mvn install
I'm trying to get the Maven guys to accept my patches (see http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-262) but since I'm new to Maven plugin development the code will most likely need some more work (if it gets accepted at all).
The patched & installed maven-dependency-plugin currently has version 2.1-SNAPSHOT.
To enable scanning Spring XMLs for dependencies you need to add this project's artifact as a dependency of the maven-dependency-plugin AND set the plugin'S new 'analyzer' property to value 'spring'.
Declare the maven-dependency-plugin in your pom.xml using the following XML snippet:
--->8---->8---
--->8---->8---
When running 'mvn dependency:analyze' on a project with Spring XMLs , you should see the following output:
[INFO] Including dependencies from Spring XMLs in analysis [INFO] Scanned Spring XML < ... Spring XML file ... >