Works for me. If its just the filter classes then I think main is
appropriate... if other stuff like the schema files, etc... need to be
moved out then perhaps a new module is more appropriate... web-app-base or
something.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to propose a little modifications to the web-app module
> that should help when building a customized version of GeoServer.
>
> The current web-app module, as I see it, has the following issues:
> - for some reason during the deploy of releases the jar ends up
> containing other jars. E.g. see
> http://repo.opengeo.org/org/geoserver/web/web-app/2.1.2/web-app-2.1.2.jar
> This is actually the .war file with a different name.
> This makes it hard to make a custom build on top of a release, which is
> annoying since most people interested in custom build do want to
> base it on a release.
> - the web-app contains some crucial classes (filters), so it's needed,
> but at the same time make choices about the dependencies that
> might be unsuitable for custom builds. E.g., in some custom build
> we might decide that we only need wms and wfs, and only support
> for vector data, plus some assorted extras
> I know, one could use maven exclusion mechanism, but it's imho
> cleaner to add what is needed instead of listing what to remove
> (might be a matter of preference)
>
> What I would like is not having to depend on web-app to start with.
> A custom build often has to roll its own web.xml anyways, so I believe
> the best way forward would just to move the classes implementing
> the filters back in main and have web-app be just the wiring that
> builds a .war, and nothing else.
> Given that all the pieces in GeoServer are made to build a web app
> moving back the filters in main should not cause any trouble (besides
> being trivial).
>
> Opinions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
>
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