I downloaded a Spring Boot project on Spring Initializer, got version 3.4.2, and installed Maven. I planned to build a POC to add some shared classes to the Shared
module and reuse them in other modules. However, I encountered an error that made me mad.
I do have a spring project with this structure
root/
├── pom.xml
├── shared/
│ └── pom.xml
├── app1/
│ └── pom.xml
├── app2/
│ └── pom.xml
└── app3/
└── pom.xml
My root POM is like this:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>3.4.2</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<groupId>br.com.root</groupId>
<artifactId>root</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<name>root</name>
<description>Root</description>
<modules>
<module>shared</module>
<module>app1</module>
<module>app2</module>
<module>app3</module>
</modules>
<properties>
<java.version>21</java.version>
<spring.boot.version>3.4.2</spring.boot.version>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
</project>
My shared POM is like this:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>br.com.root</groupId>
<artifactId>root</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
<groupId>br.com.api</groupId>
<artifactId>shared</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>shared</name>
<description>Shared App</description>
<properties>
<java.version>21</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>repackage</id>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
My App1, App2, and App3 POMs are like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>br.com.root</groupId>
<artifactId>root</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
<groupId>br.com.api</groupId>
<artifactId>app1</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>app1</name>
<description>App 1</description>
<properties>
<java.version>21</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>br.com.api</groupId>
<artifactId>shared</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
<version>5.10.5</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<annotationProcessorPaths>
<path>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</path>
</annotationProcessorPaths>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I already tried a bunch of things I've found in StackOverflow or ChatGpt, but I always get the same error message when I run mvn clean install -DskipTests -U
or only mvn clean install -pl shared,app1 -DskipTests -U
to be more accurate.
[INFO] shared ............................................. SUCCESS [ 1.787 s]
[INFO] app1 ............................................... FAILURE [ 0.692 s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2.786 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-01-25T17:47:29-03:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.13.0:compile (default-compile) on project app1: Compilation failure
[ERROR] /C:/Users/MyUser/dev/spring boot/multi-module-app/app1/src/main/java/br/com/api/app1/App1Application.java:[3,32] package br.com.api.shared.domain does not exist
Do you have some suggestion about the reason it's happening?
You don't need spring-boot-maven-plugin
in shared
module.