ActionBarSherlock + maven + eclipse: dependency not found in workspace

Question

I've updated to lastest version of ADT Plugin and I faced this issue, solved updating also m2e-android eclipse plugin. Now, I'm able to compile my project through console, but not with eclipse. This is the exception thrown by pom.xml file in eclipse:

dependency=[com.actionbarsherlock:library:apklib:4.1.0:compile] not found in workspace

In previous versions of ADT/m2e-android, I was able to build both console and eclipse without problems.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Maybe my pom.xml is wrong?

Thanks for your time.

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Currently using:

• Eclipse classic 3.7.2 (with Juno the problem persists)
• ADT 20.0.3
• m2e-android 0.42
• android-maven-plugin 3.3.0
• maven 3.0.4
• m2e 1.1.0 (included as a dependency in m2e-android 0.42)

pom.xml:

<?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 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.jelies</groupId>
    <artifactId>my-project</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>apk</packaging>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>android</groupId>
            <artifactId>android</artifactId>
            <version>4.1_r2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <!-- some unrelated dependencies -->

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.actionbarsherlock</groupId>
            <artifactId>library</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.0</version>
            <type>apklib</type>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.1.2</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>attach-sources</id>
                        <phase>verify</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2</groupId>
                <artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <sdk>
                        <platform>16</platform>
                    </sdk>
                    <emulator>
                        <avd>avd-4.1</avd>
                    </emulator>
                    <deleteConflictingFiles>true</deleteConflictingFiles>
                    <undeployBeforeDeploy>true</undeployBeforeDeploy>
                </configuration>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>eclipse</id>
            <activation>
                <!-- This profile is only activated when m2e.version is present (only 
                    in eclipse) -->
                <property>
                    <name>m2e.version</name>
                </property>
            </activation>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>com.google.android</groupId>
                    <artifactId>support-v4</artifactId>
                    <version>r7</version>
                    <scope>provided</scope>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
        </profile>
    </profiles>
</project>

EDIT:

Answer is right. Having ABS library project mavenized in my workspace, error is gone! But, another problem appeared: ABS transitive dependencies are added to my project, causing eclipse to be not able to launch the application. This is a known issue you can follow here.

Answer 1

As of Android 0.4.2 you now need to mavenise the Android library projects in your Eclipse workspace for m2e-android to successfully detect them. The POM for ActionBarSherlock can be found here:

https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/blob/master/library/pom.xml#

Note: m2e-android is beta software and so changes that might affect functionality can occur between releases.

Answer 2

For those who don't know what "MAVENIZED" means it is convert a simple project to be a Maven Project.

In Eclipse, right click in your project, Configure -> Convert to Maven Project

Answer 3

you can include the actionbarsherlock dependency as jar file only when using eclipse via profiles

<profile>
  <id>m2e</id>
  <activation>
    <property><name>m2e.version</name></property>
   </activation>
   <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.actionbarsherlock</groupId>
      <artifactId>actionbarsherlock</artifactId>
      <version>${abs.version}</version>
      <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</profile> 

and don't need to include the entire actionbarsherlock as project in eclipse

Answer 4

Add this to your parent pom.xml file as a dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.actionbarsherlock</groupId>
  <artifactId>actionbarsherlock</artifactId>
  <type>apklib</type>
  <version>4.2.0</version>
</dependency>

And the following lines to your project pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.actionbarsherlock</groupId>
    <artifactId>actionbarsherlock</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Answer 5

I've wrote detailed tutorial about mvn + eclipse + action bar sherlock integration http://v.zasadnyy.com/blog/abs-maven-eclipse-integration/

Hope it will be helpful.