> > > I'd like to leave the ability to specify what the name of the 
> > > webapp is 
> > > based on the maven.j2ee.webapp.name (or whatever it is) 
> > > property, and the 
> > > current directory structure.  Anything else makes it 
> > > difficult to create 
> > > multiple webapps out of a single code base.
> > 
> > The problem is that I'd like to have one consistent build 
> file that does not change at all for ANY project I have. The 
> only thing that changes is the project.xml file. If I would 
> have to specify a separate property, I would either have to 
> specify that in my ${user.home}/build.properties file or in 
> the project's build.xml file. That seems nasty.
> 
> Right, and the default name for the property comes from the 
> project name.  
> So where we currently do the check for the property being set 
> and then 
> failing if its not, we would modify that to set the property to the 
> project name if it was missing.

Ok, that's fine with me ;-)

> Well, it does and doesn't answer the problem.  Are we willing 
> to add a new
> element to the pom everytime a new Java artifact comes along?  
> Personally, I'm not.  Thats a maintenance nightmare waiting to happen.

No, you're right, that would be hell! And anyway, that's not part of this discussion 
:).


Alef

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