On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Andrea Aime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Andrew Hughes ha scritto:
>
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I've looked into this a little and found a few things out...
> >
> >   1. A war can most certainly be a dependency, and dependency:unpack
> >      can be used to unpack it (providing the dependency is hosted in a
> >      repository).
> >
>
> Hum, ok, but I don't know how to push a .war onto a repository... I'm
> not even sure we would like to do so. Each .war is 30MB, we'd have to
> make sure the .war are pushed onto the repo only during the release
> process (as opposed to publishing them daily as we for, for instance,
> with the geotools jars)


I would have to say, that this *should* really only be used with releases
and not SNAPSHOTS, but of course we all like to test.


>
>
>    2. Providing we make a mojo plugin available, the unpacked ./data
> >      directory can be replaced by that of the local project/module.
> >  (./src/main/config)         1. This can be done starting up an embedded app
> > server
> >            (jetty/tomcat/whatever see maven cargo) with the geoserver
> >            war and -DGEOSERVER_DATA_DIR=${basedir}/src/main/config
> >   3. It's would also be possible to run an embedded appserver+geoserver
> >      inside maven, so "out of the box" spatial data
> >      development/configuration/testing/hosting of (.src/main/config) is
> >      available.
> >   4. The geoserver.war can be repacked with the newly developed
> >      (./src/main/config) spatial data/configuration replacing ./data
> >
>
> Hum, this sounds like a good candidate for a community module. Interested
> in working on it and providing some guidance on how to use it in the
> wiki?


I will try to find some time to see how complex this is in the next couple
of days.


>
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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