Giacomo Pati wrote:

 Fine. Do you have in mind to support this by a Maven plugin to create
 descriptors, based on dependencies defined in the pom, unpack them to
 create the webapp structure suitable for war packaging?


pom.xml only contains the Java library dependencies. But yes, we could provide some plugin that creates an initial block-deploy.xml if we see that we need this - time will show.


And the wiring.xml I suppose.

Of course it's possible to edit the wiring.xml but I would (will) recommend using the deployer as it will do validation, auto-wiring, ...

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