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Another thing to mention: I've also tried only adding the fixtures.jar however the helper class has a dependency on flyway, therefore when using it in my other project I receive a class Not Found error. That's why I'm trying to pack the whole module (so that I have access to sql files and dependencies).

you shouldn't be using the jar directly

hey ! I've just tried to publish it to my local maven repo and it worked. however, there's still the issue of my flyway migrations. now it does indeed see the flyway dependency but it cannot see the location of the migrations in the filesystem. any suggestions ? edit: thanks for taking the time to answer !

extra files are usually distributed as resources (eg

src/main/resources/*

) but I don't know details about flyway

while my question certainly drifts a bit off topic, I still think it's in test-fixtures scope. let me rephrase: if I'm hardcoding a file path in src/testFixtures that points to resources (outside src/testFixtures but gets packaged in the jar) will classes from testFixtures have access to that ? really sorry in advance if my understanding is not correct

no, not by file path. you can access it by resource name though

thanks for all the answers. I did manage to pass the file path by including "classpath:" in front of the string