Eclipse+Maven: What if a project depends from another project?

Update on 24 Nov 2011: Unfortunately it seems that every time I change A I have to execute the cmd "mvn install" on A and refresh B to see the changes....any ideas?

Assume Project B needs Project A to compile and execute... We want whenever we modify code in A then B to get updated...An easy solution would be to add the jar of A in WEB-INF/lib of B but every time we changed A we would need a manual "mvn package".

Senario: B depends on A

Assuming the pom.xml of A is:

<project ...
 <groupId>CORE</groupId>
 <artifactId>CORE</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <name>CORE</name>
...
</project>

install A on local repository:

on A: mvn clean install

Add a as dependency on B's pom.xml:

<dependency>
 <groupId>CORE</groupId>
 <artifactId>CORE</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

updates B's Eclipse project configurations (i.e. .classpath):

$ mvn eclipse:eclipse

[INFO] B's .classpath after 'mvn eclipse:eclipse':

<classpath>
  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java"/>
  <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java" output="target/test-classes"/>
  <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
  <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/com/maventest/mytest/1.0-SNAPSHOT/mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
  <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
</classpath>

The above .classpath has been taken from the references...

[TROUBLESHOOTING] If you get in Eclipse the error "Classpath entry ... jar will not be exported or published. Runtime ClassNotFoundExceptions may result."

On Eclipse right click on project B > Java Build Path > Order and Export > select all!

Also check Java Build Path > Libraries and

Deployment Assembly

[TROUBLESHOOTING] If you the in Eclipse the error "implementation of version 6.0 of project facet"

edit .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.ccore.xml (assuming you use Tomcat 7.0):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faceted-project>
  <runtime name="Apache Tomcat v7.0"/>
  <fixed facet="jst.web"/>
  <fixed facet="wst.jsdt.web"/>
  <fixed facet="java"/>
  <installed facet="jst.web" version="3.0"/>
  <installed facet="wst.jsdt.web" version="1.0"/>
  <installed facet="jst.jsf" version="2.0"/>
  <installed facet="java" version="1.6"/>
</faceted-project>

[TROUBLESHOOTING] If you get the error that the MANIFEST.MF is not found...

Edit pom.xml in orer the build process to create the MANIFEST.MF (it must exist - see wikipedia):

   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.1</version>
    <!-- <configuration> -->
    <!-- <useDefaultManifestFile>true</useDefaultManifestFile> -->
    <!-- </configuration> -->
    <configuration>
     <archive>
      <index>true</index>
      <manifest>
       <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
      </manifest>
      <manifestEntries>
       <mode>development</mode>
       <url>${pom.url}</url>
       <key>value</key>
      </manifestEntries>
     </archive>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>

References:

• http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-add-a-project-as-a-dependency-of-another-project.html?page=1
• http://www.avajava.com/tutorials/lessons/how-do-i-add-a-project-as-a-dependency-of-another-project.html?page=2