Integrate Protocol Buffers into Maven2 build

Question

I\'m experimenting with Protocol Buffers in an existing, fairly vanilla Maven 2 project. Currently, I invoke a shell script every time I need to update my generated sources. Thi

Answer 1

The accepted answer encouraged me to get the Google-provided plugin to work. I merged the branch mentioned in my question into a checkout of 2.2.0 source code, built and installed/deployed the plugin, and was able to use it in my project as follows:

  
    
      
        com.google.protobuf.tools
        maven-protoc-plugin
        0.0.1
        
          
            generate-sources
            
              compile
            
            generate-sources
            
              ${basedir}/src/main/protobuf/
              
                **/*.proto
              
            
          
        
        
          /usr/local/bin/protoc
        
      
    
  

Note that I changed the plugin's version to 0.0.1 (no -SNAPSHOT) in order to make it go into my non-snapshot thirdparty Nexus repository. YMMV. The takeaway is that this plugin will be usable once it's no longer necessary to jump through hoops in order to get it going.