How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Hello all, How do I get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app?? Any clue welcome! Julien. Here is my POM: 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

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

persistence.xml needs to be on the class path doesn't it? Create a directory src/main/java/resources and put it in there. When maven packages up your war it will put all files in the resources directory into your war file under the WEB-INF/classes directory. Hope this helps. Ben On 8/28/07,

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Thanks Ben, Is there not a way to put it (persistence.xml) into meta-inf instead? Julien. 2007/8/28, ben short [EMAIL PROTECTED]: persistence.xml needs to be on the class path doesn't it? Create a directory src/main/java/resources and put it in there. When maven packages up your war it will

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

I think you can just create /src/main/webapp/META-INF and put it in there. On 8/28/07, Julien Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Ben, Is there not a way to put it (persistence.xml) into meta-inf instead? Julien. 2007/8/28, ben short [EMAIL PROTECTED]: persistence.xml needs to be on

RE: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Hi Julien, you can configure aditional resources through the war plugin. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/adding-filteri ng-webresources.html So you need something like this !-- All webapps filter and add **/**.xml in src/main/config tp the war -- plugin

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

The problem is that I have to use an existing path i.e. (MyProject\src\conf\persistence.xml) and cannot change that Is there not a way to modify the POM in order for it to include my persistence.xml?? Sorry I am a real beginner at Maven... Julien. 2007/8/28, ben short [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Hi, this should do what you want: plugin groupIdorg.apache.maven.plugins/groupId artifactIdmaven-war-plugin/artifactId configuration webResources resource directorysrc/conf/directory !-- override the destination directory for this resource --

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Thanks Tim for you suggestion. I thought I was getting there but apparently the targetPath is COMPLETELY ignored by Maven... Here is where the persistence.xml is copied: the root of the war... Here is my POM for your info. Tis almost identical to your suggestion: project

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Thank!! 2007/8/28, Tim Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Strange, it's working for me with this simple test project: project modelVersion4.0.0/modelVersion artifactIdmy-test-app/artifactId groupIdmy-test-group/groupId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version

Re: How to get Maven to include persistence.xml into a web app??

Strange, it's working for me with this simple test project: project modelVersion4.0.0/modelVersion artifactIdmy-test-app/artifactId groupIdmy-test-group/groupId version1.0-SNAPSHOT/version packagingwar/packaging build plugins plugin