Thanks for that Dave, I've been thinking of using Puppet to make automated deployment of my slightly customised Roller site and theme easy, but had neglected to think of using Maven instead. I think the Maven route will be much simpler!
Cheers, Edd On 15 June 2011 13:31, Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > With 5.0 the way to do custom version of Roller is to use Maven's WAR > overlay feature: > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/overlays.html > > The high-level steps are: > 1) Create a Maven webapp project with your new Java classes in > src/main/java and your web files in src/main/webapp as with any Maven > webapp project > 2) Declare the Roller Webapp module as one of the dependencies for > your new project > 3) Run Maven to build your new WAR file with both Roller and your custom > classes > > That's what I do for my website at rollerweblogger.org, which includes > custom classes, files, etc. > > Hope that helps... > > - Dave > > > > > > 2011/6/15 Piotr Gliźniewicz <p.glizniew...@netpr.pl>: > > Hi! > > We are using a custom version of Roller 4.0 We customized it by adding > > necessary classes to the apps\weblogger\custom\ directory - new Struts 2 > > actions, a WebEntryEditor implementation, resource files. I would like to > > upgrade it to Roller 5.0, but I don't know how to merge our changes with > the > > new maven project structure. Is there any documented way to extend Roller > > 5.0 as it was possible with apps\weblogger\custom? > > Best, > > Piotr Gliźniewicz > > > -- Web: http://www.eddgrant.com Email: e...@eddgrant.com Mobile: +44 (0) 7861 394 543
