On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yep, and we do already support zip contributions, this applies to folder >> contributions too. In both of those the code already finds various artifacts >> within the contribution like wsdl or xsd files, i think its "just" a matter >> of adding similar support to find the jar files and get them added to the >> contribution classpath. I've raised TUSCANY-2786 to track this, seems like >> there is consensus emerging that this would be a useful thing to do. >> >> ...ant > > I was asked off list by a user about when we'd be supporting this, > I've asked them to post to the ML about it but in the meantime i had a > quick go at adding support for this in 2.x r761236. Its work in > progress and presently jars within zips get copied to temporary files > which doesn't seem ideal, but its enough to get the two itests for zip > and folder contributions running. Comments on better approaches > welcome. > > ...ant >
and if we're going to support zip contributions there are some other things that would be nice to do: - a maven plugin for creating zip contributions. You could do it with the maven assembly plugin but it would be nice to simplify that so you can do something like just have <packaging>sca-zip</packaging> in the pom.xml and perhaps a simple way to include/exclude dependency jars that get included in the zip. - an archetype to create sca zip contribution projects - update the webapp runtime so it can use jar and zip contributions as well as the existing way of having everything in web-inf/classes ...ant
