Thrift compiler via Maven

helper.sh.txt

# we use antrun:run goal and bind it to the generate-sources lifecycle
# to generate java source files via thrift compiler 
$ mvn generate-sources

# or just use
$ mvn compile

pom.xml

<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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.tomazkovacic</groupId>
  <artifactId>boilerpipe-thrift</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>boilerpipe-thrift</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <thrift.exe>/usr/local/bin/thrift</thrift.exe>
    <thrift.interface>${basedir}/thrift/Service.thrift</thrift.interface>
    <gendir.target>${basedir}/target/generated-sources</gendir.target>
    <gendir.namespace>com/yourdomain/yourlib/thrift/gen</gendir.namespace>
    <gendir.src>${basedir}/src/main/java/com/yourdomain/yourlib/thrift/gen</gendir.src>
  </properties>

  
  <build>
      <plugins>
          <plugin>
              <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>1.6</version>
              <configuration></configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>generate-sources</id>
                    <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <target>
                                <echo>
                                    create (or clear) output directory for generated files
                                </echo> 
                                <mkdir dir="${gendir.target}" />
                                <delete>
                                    <fileset dir="${gendir.target}" includes="**/*" />
                                </delete>
                                
                                <echo>
                                    generate java source files from ${thrift.interface}
                                </echo>
                                <exec executable="${thrift.exe}">
                                  <arg value="--gen" />
                                  <arg value="java:beans"/>
                                  <arg value="-o"/>
                                  <arg value="${gendir.target}"/>
                                  <arg value="${thrift.interface}"/>
                                </exec>
                                
                                <echo>
                                    copy generated files to ${gendir.src}
                                </echo>
                                <mkdir dir="${gendir.src}" />
                                <delete>
                                  <fileset dir="${gendir.src}" includes="**/*"/>
                                </delete>
                                <copy todir="${gendir.src}">
                                  <fileset dir="target/generated-sources/gen-javabean/${gendir.namespace}"/>
                                </copy>

                            </target>
                        </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
          </plugin>
        
        
        <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
           <configuration>
               <source>1.6</source>
               <target>1.6</target>
           </configuration>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
  </build>
  
  
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.thrift</groupId>
        <artifactId>libfb303</artifactId>
        <version>0.6.1</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

tree.dump

assuming the following directory structure

|-- pom.xml
|-- src
|   |-- main
|   |   `-- java
|   |       `-- com
|   |           `-- yourdomain
|   |               `-- yourlib
|   |                   `-- thrift
|   |                       |-- App.java
|   |                       `-- gen
|   |                           `-- ...
|   `-- test
|       `-- ...
`-- thrift
    `-- Service.thrift