Maven: Deploy on Save of EAR in Netbeans only works when dependency project is open

Question

The deploy on save option of my EAR project is not working and I don't understand why. Here is my structure:

myproject-ear, packaging: EAR
--->myproject-core, packaging: JAR (ejbs)
--->myproject-web, packaging: WAR (.xhtml pages, some javascript and CSS)

I'm using maven and I have the war references the JAR as a provided dependency.

The thing is I have a Nexus repository to handle my JAR versioning, I do not develop with my JAR project open. But if I close my JAR project and then deploy the application the fast deployment simply stops working on glassfish (it doesn't even generate a gfdeploy on my EAR target folder, it instead copies all files to the glassfish directory).

Here are my (simplified) pom files:

Father project:

<artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>myproject</name>

<modules>
    <module>myproject-web</module>
    <module>myproject-ear</module>
</modules>

EAR project (uses maven-ear-plugin):

<parent>
    <artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
    <groupId>mygroupid</groupId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>

<artifactId>myproject-ear</artifactId>
<packaging>ear</packaging>

<name>myproject-ear</name>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mygroupid</groupId>
        <artifactId>myproject-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>ejb</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mygroupid</groupId>
        <artifactId>myproject-web</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>war</type>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

WAR project (uses maven-war-plugin):

<parent>
    <artifactId>myproject</artifactId>
    <groupId>mygroupid</groupId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>

<artifactId>myproject-web</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>

<name>myproject-web</name>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>mygroupid</groupId>
        <artifactId>myproject-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>ejb</type>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax</groupId>
        <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
        <version>6.0</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

What version of Netbeans? If you're using the development build, deploy on save has issues right now. Specifically, I've re-opened netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215976. — Alvin Thompson
@AlvinThompson I do am using Netbeans 7.2. It seems you are right and this bug is the problem I'm having. From the bug report it seems that it works on Netbeans 7.1.2. If you want to post it as an answer I can accept it until I have time to test it properly on Netbeans 7.1.2. — Hoffmann
Why such an old version? Netbeans 7.3 improved much of that stuff and 7.3.1 should add further refinements (including support for Jboss 7.1.1). The dev build (which will be 7.4 or 8) improves things even more--if you can live with the bugs. — Alvin Thompson

Alvin Thompson Alvin Thompson · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-30T14:31:12

It may be a bug with your version of Netbeans. Try Netbeans version 7.3 and see if it works there. The issue I mentioned says it works in 7.1.2 but I'd give 7.3 a shot first. The issue was reported resolved in 7.3 and only broke again for the 7.4/8 development builds.

Maven: Deploy on Save of EAR in Netbeans only works when dependency project is open

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