Hi Eric, Related to what Ron is suggesting, you can use Maven's "import" scope to import dependencies en masse. Then you would only need to maintain a single POM project with all Tomcat dependencies, as Ron suggests, and just import them into each project that needs them.
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Importing_Dependencies Regards, Curtis On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]>wrote: > This produces a pom that we include as a dependency in our war projects to > give them access to the methods that Tomcat provides. > > This avoids having to maintain the tomcat dependencies in each project. > just a single dependency on the right version of this pom and your project > can use Tomcat. > > This is for Tomcat 7. The tomcat version is 7.0.25 but that really does > not affect its use with later versions. I think that we are mostly using > 7.0.36 on deployment now. > > The parent POM has nothing particularly interesting for this pom. > > I hope that this helps. > Most of the Tomcat jars are not interesting to you and you really only > need to code to the interfaces that are exposed to webapps not all the > internal methods that Tomcat uses. > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; xmlns:xsi=" > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > <parent> > <artifactId>util-pom-master</artifactId> > <groupId>com.artifact_software.util</groupId> > <version>2.1</version> > </parent> > <artifactId>util-pom-tomcat</artifactId> > <packaging>pom</packaging> > <name>Tomcat</name> > > <version>7.0.25</version> > <description> > Tomcat configuration. > This does not produce a jar since Tomcat provides the jars in its > distribution. > </description> > > <properties> > <jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version> > <taglibs-standard.version>1.1.2</taglibs-standard.version> > <servlet-api.version>3.0.1</servlet-api.version> > <tomcat.version>7.0.25</tomcat.version> > </properties> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> > <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId> > <version>${servlet-api.version}</version> > <scope>runtime</scope> > </dependency> > <dependency> > <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> > <artifactId>jstl</artifactId> > <version>${jstl.version}</version> > <scope>runtime</scope> > </dependency> > <dependency> > <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId> > <artifactId>jstl-impl</artifactId> > <version>${jstl.version}</version> > <scope>runtime</scope> > <exclusions> > <exclusion> > <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId> > <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> > </exclusion> > <exclusion> > <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId> > <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId> > </exclusion> > <exclusion> > <artifactId>jstl-api</artifactId> > <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId> > </exclusion> > </exclusions> > </dependency> > <!-- No longer required for Tomcat 7+ <dependency> > <groupId>taglibs</groupId> > <artifactId>standard</artifactId> <version>${taglibs-standard. > version}</version> > </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>taglibs</groupId> > <artifactId>request</artifactId> > <version>${taglibs-request.version}</version> </dependency> --> > </dependencies> > > </project> > > > On 05/12/2013 6:17 PM, Eric Kolotyluk wrote: > >> OK, there must be an easier way to do this... >> >> I am trying to figure out how to configure my POM to depend on tomcat, >> without creating dependencies on each individual tomcat jar file. >> >> After googling around for answers, I cannot seem to find any simple way >> to set up my web app so that right dependencies are defined (i.e. >> HttpServlet) >> >> Can anyone point me to some simple guide on how this is done? >> >> Cheers, Eric >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: [email protected] > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
