How do I get Emma or Cobertura, with Maven, to report coverage on source code in other modules?

Question

I have a multi-module Maven setup with Java code.

My unit tests, in one of the modules, exercise code in multiple modules. Naturally, the modules have inter-dependenc

Answer 1

I doubt if would be possible since the coverage information is obtained by cobertura/emma by instrumenting the compiled classes. While this would work for classes in the specified project, it is doubtful if these tools will instrument dependant libraries.

A look at the maven cobertura plugin usage also does not seem to indicate any such possibility.