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Chris Graham commented on MEAR-88:
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@Anders I completely agree! I can still remember trying to sort of the mess (ie
which to use) when m2e was in the very early days. There was little to no
documentation, and it was unstable (at that time). So I needed to come up with
a maven based solution that did not require m2e. One that I've since had to use
with some of the embedded tooling.
> Improve documentation on combining Eclipse and Maven Integration
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: MEAR-88
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEAR-88
> Project: Maven Ear Plugin
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Chris Graham
> Assignee: Robert Scholte
> Priority: Trivial
> Fix For: 2.9
>
>
> This could be implemented as another example.
> Eclipse and Maven Integration
> If you have used {{mvn eclipse:eclipse}} to generate the metadata for an EAR
> project, it will want the {{application.xml}} file in the
> {{src\main\application\META-INF}} directory.
> If you edit application.xml using the WTP based Application Deployment
> Descriptor editor, it will use the name of the projects (Web, EJB etc) as the
> name of the modules. Here is an example:
> {code:xml}
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/application_1_4.xsd"; version="1.4">
> <display-name>FireDragon</display-name>
> <module>
> <web>
> <web-uri>FireDragonWeb.war</web-uri>
> <context-root>firedragon</context-root>
> </web>
> </module>
> </application>
> {code}
> Obviously this does not have the typical maven based version naming
> convention applied to it. This allows us to run the application internally
> within eclipse/rsa using the test environments.
> However, when maven is used to create the ear using mvn package, it will
> create the versionised application.xml file, if told to. However, by default
> it will not pick up the generated (versionized) one, it will use the existing
> one in the {{src\main\application\META-INF}} directory.
> The solution to resolve this conflict is to have maven generate the
> application.xml and use the generated one as opposed to the existing one.
> This can be achieved via these two directives:
> {code:xml}
> <generateApplicationXml>true</generateApplicationXml>
> <applicationXml>${project.build.directory}/application.xml</applicationXml>
> {code}
> The first line tells maven to generate a new application.xml file, by default
> in the target directory.
> The second line tells maven to use it.
> Simple!
> -Chris
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