In this chapter, we create a multi-module project that combines the
examples from the two previous chapters. The simple-weather code
developed in Chapter 4, Customizing a Maven Project will be combined with the simple-webapp
project defined in Chapter 5, A Simple Web Application to create a web application that retrieves
and displays weather forecast information on a web page. At the end of
this chapter, you will be able to use Maven to develop complex,
multi-module projects.
6.1.1. Downloading this Chapter’s Example
The multi-module project developed in this example consists of
modified versions of the projects developed in
Chapter 4, Customizing a Maven Project and Chapter 5, A Simple Web Application, and we are not using the Maven Archetype
plugin to generate this multi-module project. We strongly recommend
downloading a copy of the example code to use as a supplemental
reference while reading the content in this chapter. This chapter’s
example project may be downloaded with the book’s example code at:
http://books.sonatype.com/mvnex-book/mvnex-examples.zip
Unzip this archive in any directory, and then go to the ch-multi/
directory. There you will see a directory named simple-parent,
which contains the multi-module Maven project developed in this
chapter. In this directory, you will see a pom.xml and the two
submodule directories, simple-weather and simple-webapp.
