Maven child module does not exist

Question

I'm new to Maven. I checked out from SVN a project from a customer with the following structure:

projectName

|--> pom.xml

|--> jetty-wrapper

     |--> pom.xml

     |--> bin

          |--> pom.xml

|--> projectName-common

     |--> pom.xml

     |--> bin

          |--> pom.xml

|--> projectName-war

     |--> bin

          |--> pom.xml

the pom.xml right below 'projectName` (the pom at the top) is building the three modules

<modules>

    <module>projectName-common</module>

    <module>projectName-war</module>

    <module>jetty-wrapper</module>

</modules>

But when executing

mvn clean install

from folder

projectName

it gives the following error

Child module [...]projectName\projectName-war\pom.xml of [...]projectName\pom.xml does not exist

The question is: Should there be a pom.xml right below

projectName-war

just like with the rest of the modules that my customer may have forgotten to commit to SVN?

Thanks!

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Answer 1

The question is: Should there be a pom.xml right below projectName-war

Simply put yes.

You have already figured out the trick, and since you haven't provided a poject descriptor aka pom.xml to maven, it won't be able to call the projectName-war a valid child module.

There must absolutely be a pom.xml file under projectName-war, and it must have an artifact id that matches the one under the parent declaring the module, i.e.

<artifactId>rojectName-war</artifactId>

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