Share test resources between maven projects

Question

There is a clear solution for sharing the common test code between maven projects using test-jar goal of maven-jar-plugin plugin (see here).

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Answer 1

Just use jar:test-jar and declare the resulting JAR as a dependency (refer to this guide for more details). And while I don't understand the problem of having resources and classes in this jar, you can always exclude all .class files:

  
    
     
       org.apache.maven.plugins
       maven-jar-plugin
       2.2
       
         
           
             test-jar
           
         
       
        
         
           **/*.class
         
        
     
    
  

And to use it:

  ...
  
    
      com.myco.app
      foo
      1.0-SNAPSHOT
      test-jar
      test
    
  
  ...