How do you use Maven to share source code for two projects?

Question

I have a large Java Web Application project using Maven and I need to start a new project that will share most of the same code (so I don\'t have to repeat work), but not all of

Answer 1

You should refactor your projects.

1. Identify the common code
2. Extract that into its own maven module
   2.1. usually web-apps are multi module, so if you are going to share the common library across two web-apps, then separate the common library out into its own group-id
3. Build and install the jar file into your repository
4. change the poms of the web-apps to depend on your new library