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
> 
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