<settings>
<pluginGroups>
<pluginGroup>org.mule.tools</pluginGroup>
</pluginGroups>
...
</settings>
Configuring Maven to Work with Mule
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When working with Maven and Mule outside of Anypoint Studio, you need to configure your Maven installation to work successfully with Mule. This page covers how to maintain your POM file to add or adjust dependencies and point to the correct MuleSoft repositories, and how to modify your Maven settings.xml
file to include credentials and profiles for the Enterprise repository.
Once you have modified your Maven installation, you can install Mule plugins and develop applications that reference the Mule open source or Enterprise repositories.
Developing in Maven is greatly simplified by the Maven Tools for Mule plugin, which provides Maven archetypes for building Mule applications.
Note: Anypoint Exchange provides Maven dependency information. Click a connector asset and click Dependency Snippets to list the Maven pom.xml file dependency.
Prerequisites
This document assumes that you are working with Maven outside of Anypoint Studio, and thus will be using archetypes to build Mule applications. See Using Maven with Mule for an overview of using Maven to manage your Mule projects. This document also assumes you have Apache Maven installed.
Note that you generally do not need to modify your settings.xml file if you are working with Maven through Studio, as Studio keeps track of the dependencies you’ll need and attempts to manage them for you in the application’s associated POM file. If dependency errors occur, you may need to manually adjust your POM file, and, in some cases, in your settings.xml. Refer to the Maven documentation for the pom.xml and settings.xml for specific instructions. |
Setup Overview
Before you can start using Maven to create new Mule projects from the command line using archetypes, you need to:
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Ensure that Maven is installed in a directory that does not include spaces.
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Create or maintain your already-created
pom.xml
files for your applications to include references to the MuleSoft open-source repositories and any connectors, modules, or other extensions that you need to include in each application. -
Enterprise users only: Modify the
settings.xml
file to point to the Enterprise Customer repository and provide your credentials.
Configuring Your Maven Installation for Mule
Enabling MuleSoft Plugins
To enable MuleSoft plugins, you can modify either your project file (POM) or your settings.xml
file. Edit the desired configuration file to include the following:
Referencing the Open Source MuleSoft Repositories
Edit your settings.xml
or project file to include the following:
<repositories>
...
<repository>
<id>mulesoft-releases</id>
<name>MuleSoft Repository</name>
<url>http://repository.mulesoft.org/releases/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
<repository>
<id>mulesoft-snapshots</id>
<name>MuleSoft Snapshot Repository</name>
<url>http://repository.mulesoft.org/snapshots/</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
...
</repositories>
If the dependencies that you need are not already present, add them as shown.
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>GROUP ID OF DEPENDENCY</groupId>
<artifactId>ARTIFACT ID OF DEPENDENCY</artifactId>
<version>VERSION OF DEPENDENCY</version>
</dependency>
...
<dependencies>
For example, if you were adding the dependency for the Salesforce connector:
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
<artifactId>mule-module-sfdc</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>
...
<dependencies>
Not sure what the dependency details are for a connector that you need? Refer to the connector-specific Maven instructions on the connectors site.
Referencing MuleSoft’s Enterprise Repositories
Enterprise
This section assumes that you have acquired an Enterprise License and credentials for the MuleSoft Enterprise Maven customer repository, which allows you to access Mule Enterprise modules, connectors, and other components not included in the trial or community versions. If you are a MuleSoft customer and do not have access to the repository, contact MuleSoft Support.
To configure Maven to access the MuleSoft Customer Repository, you need to make additions to the settings.xml
config file. Your .m2
directory may already contain a configuration file called settings.xml
. Note that this file is not mandatory; Maven uses default parameters if the file is not present. If you don’t have a settings.xml
file at all, create it inside the ~/.m2
folder. Read more about the settings.xml
file in the Maven documentation.
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Open the file
<USER_HOME>/.m2/settings.xml
for editing. -
Add the following to the
servers
section.<server> <id>MuleRepository</id> <username>YOUR_ID</username> <password>YOUR_PASSWORD</password> </server>
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Add the following to the
profiles
section:<profile> <id>Mule</id> <activation> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> </activation> <repositories> <repository> <id>MuleRepository</id> <name>MuleRepository</name> <url>https://repository.mulesoft.org/nexus-ee/content/repositories/releases-ee/</url> <layout>default</layout> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> </releases> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> </snapshots> </repository> </repositories> </profile>
See Also
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Learn about Maven tools for Mule, a Mule plugin to develop Mule applications in Maven.
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Control instances of Mule using the Mule plugin for Maven.
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See the Maven documentation on settings to configure servers and repository access from the settings.xml file.