agreed about it not being a pissing contest :) There's no point having two parallel streams of work for the same end.
I wrote this plugin about a year ago and sent it to dev where it promptly got lost in the ether. I've been meaning (for about the last year) to get the plugin up on a website somewhere, which after much procrastinating I've eventually got round to doing.
The intention is to have the work released under an "APL-style" license
http://www.codeczar.com/products/tomcat/license.html
(I copied the APL and relaced the words "Apache Software Foundation" with codeczar.)
Do I also need to include the APL license somewhere as the catalina-ant jar is available on the site?
I'll have a look at your stuff today and see how we can combine things for the greater good.
cheers Nathan
Brian Ewins wrote:
You mean like this one? http://wiki.codehaus.org/maven/TomcatPlugin
That's been knocking around in various formats since last December (posted to the -dev list back then). The version above doesn't depend on the catalina ant jar (like my previous versions, and like yours does) because, as you mention, it isnt in ibiblio.
Still, this isnt a pissing contest, it would be worth trying to get the best from both.
- your plugin supports more properties (I'm not sure how useful it is to supply the manager webapp URL in pieces, but certainly being able to override the directories/paths involved is a good thing.)
- mine supports the use of a tomcat-context.xml for adding in JNDI entries and the like.
- yours has a better website :)
- mine can be installed without extra jars.
There was also some discussion of 'in-place' webapp development on the list a couple of weeks ago, I think those goals could be usefully added.
I'm guessing your stuff is ASL (I havent downloaded it). Mine has to be, because it incorporates some code from the catalina ant tasks (not a huge amount, but nevertheless, its ASL-licensed). Assuming thats the case, feel free to loot the code.
-Baz
Nathan Coast wrote:
Hi,
I'm pleased to announce a new Maven plugin to deploy web applications within Tomcat.
http://www.codeczar.com/products/tomcat
This plugin deploys web-applications built with maven into Tomcat using the catalina-ant tasks which come with tomcat distributions.
Cheers Nathan
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