That would be wonderful, could you just attach them to an email in this 
thread? That sounds like a good approach to generating the final 
artifact to deploy.

-Eric

Brad Szabo wrote:
> Hi Eric, 
>
> I utilize the Maven Assembly plugin to create a Tomcat overlay archive
> (zip file in my case) which allows for easy extraction of items into
> various Tomcat directories as needed... webapps, common, conf etc...
>
> I can contribute the POM configuration and the assembly descriptor if
> you are interested.
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:15 -0500, Eric Dalquist wrote:
>   
>> I'm working on mavenizing the trunk of uPortal and have run into a few 
>> questions I'd like to pose to the group.
>>
>> The big one is packaging. Using maven for build management really lends 
>> itself to generating an EAR since it allows multiple WARs (uPortal and 
>> each portlet app) and shared libraries. For uPortal 3 sandbox 
>> development we already have an EAR -> Tomcat deployer tool which puts 
>> the WARs and JARs in the correct locations.
>>
>> The problem with the EAR approach is it does not (as far as I can tell) 
>> allow for differentiation of what libraries are shared by just the WARs 
>> (pluto) and what libraries need to be shared with the servlet container 
>> (jdbc driver for JNDI datasource).
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what to do about this. We don't really need to use 
>> JNDI for the DataSource in the quickstart / out of the box configuration 
>> but providing a way to do it without having to come up with a custom 
>> development process would be very good.
>>
>> Discussion and suggestions are both welcome.
>> -Eric
>>     
>
>
>   

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