Ok, I'll create a Jira issue and get started on a patch.
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 08:02 +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote: > On 5/19/07, Kevin Stembridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Jerome, > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > I wouldn't say that the plugin already does too much. For me, it doesn't > > quite do enough. I agree with you that there might not be many projects that > > 'need' this functionality but I know that mine certainly does. Not just from > > a technical point of view, but also because I have to justify to my boss > > that Maven can give us everything that we used to have with our previous Ant > > build. > > > > I know you're busy and I'm happy to do the work myself. I still haven't > > given much thought to the solution but I'm leaning towards the idea that the > > webstart plugin should not be responsible for collating the jars to be > > bundled for deployment. Or if it is still responsible, then the current > > mechanism should be modified so that it doesn't require the jars to be > > declared as project dependencies because of the limitation of only being > > able to declare a single version of a given artifact. > > > > You were suggesting creating a new mojo that can add older versions to an > > existing bundle. Instead of going down that route, how about creating a new > > mojo that is intended for use in projects using JnlpDownloadServlet. > > > > For example, it would have the following characteristics: > > * Can be used within a war project. > > * Does not produce its own artifact, but processes jars and stores them in > > an output directory prior to the war being packaged, e.g. > > my-project/target/my-project-1.0.war/webstart/ > > * Optionally generates a version.xml file. > > * Enables multiple versions of the same artifact to be bundled. > > that sounds much better. > > Jerome > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >
