Using Maven with the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit

Use Maven to extend the capability of an integration project by enabling the inclusion of dependencies.

Activate Maven support by completing the following steps:

1. Add a test case to your message flow by completing the following steps:
   1. Right-click the Compute node and select Create a test case to open the Create test case wizard.
   2. Optionally, edit any fields and select checkboxes as required.
   3. Click Next.
   4. Optionally, edit the package and class detail as required.
   5. Click Next.
   6. Optionally, edit the Java build settings as required.
   7. Click Finish to display the test case in the Java editor of the IBM® App Connect Enterprise Toolkit.
   8. Optionally, edit the Java code as required.

   For more information, see Developing integration tests by using the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit.

2. Right-click the application and select Configure > Convert to Maven Project to open the Maven POM wizard.
3. In the Maven POM wizard, accept the default settings and click Finish.
   In the Application Development view of the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit, the letter "M" appears alongside your integration project and alongside the pom.xml file in the Independent Resources section.
4. Add a dependency by completing the following steps:
   1. In the Other Resources section of the Application Development view, right-click the pom.xml file and select Maven > Add dependency to open the Add dependency wizard.
   2. Enter a value for Group ID. For example, com.google.code.gson.
   3. Enter a value for Artifact ID. For example, gson.
   4. Enter a value for Version. For example, 2.8.6.
   5. Click OK.
   The dependencies are automatically generated and inserted into the pom.xml file:

   
   <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>myMavenApp</groupId>
     <artifactId>myMavenApp</artifactId>
     <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <dependencies>
     	<dependency>
     		<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
     		<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
     		<version>2.8.6</version>
     	</dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </project>

   For more information about dependencies, see https://maven.apache.org/.

5. Open the test case that you created in Step 1 and add a test method to enable the Maven dependencies to be included:

   
   @Test
       public void myMavenApp_MavenFlow_Compute_TestCase_002() {
           Gson gson = new Gson();
           System.out.println("My Gson object is "+gson.toString());
           XStream xstream = new XStream();
           System.out.println("xtream object is "+ xstream.toString());   
       }

6. Errors appear in your integration project after you add the test method to the test case in step 5. Resolve the errors by selecting the imports:

   
   import com.google.gson.Gson
   import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStreamYour 

   Your integration project is now clean and it contains no errors.