I have an “interesting” situation at work where I need to unpack the warfile built by a POM to a known directory whose name does not vary with the project’s maven coordinates prior to starting an embedded tomcat server via “mvn tomcat:run-war.” Note that I don’t need to unpack the project dependencies (which is what the dependency plugin does), but the actual warfile itself that was built during the package phase. I can’t use the directory from which the warfile was built, since the name of that directory varies with the project’s maven coordinates, and I don’t want to change the name of that directory to exclude the maven coordinates for obvious reasons (e.g. old builds might collide when version numbers are updated). Is there a maven plugin that will simply unpack a war file, as if executing “jar xvf somefile.war”? As an alternate solution, is there a plugin that will recursively copy the contents of one directory to another?
Thanks, Tom Ault
