This page describes my problem - https://github.com/koyadume/piston-master/wiki/App
- Shailendra > Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:09:35 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Creating a jar and a war from a war project > > Starting with an explanation of what you are trying to accomplish rather > than with what problem you are experiencing, usually makes the problem > easier to solve and makes the advice you get actually helpful. > > What are you trying to do that makes your requirements so non-standard? > > If you are just trying to separate the war from the code, this is pretty > standard and a good idea. > You make 2 projects, one to make the jar and another to make the war. > Both become trivial examples of maven projects and do not require any > crazy plug-in configurations. > The war has a dependency on the jar. > > If you want to install the jar separately from your war(jar not included > the war), make the jar dependency in your war POM as scope "provided". > Maven will not put any jar contents in the war file and will leave it up > to the Servlet container to find the classes. > The jar is nothing special and all of the components will be where they > are supposed to be and you will have no trouble when you try to run your > app. > > http://blog.artifact-software.com/tech/?tag=maven has some articles that > I wrote on making multi-project application work with Maven with this > sort of separation of libraries from war configuration. > > Ron > > On 19/12/2014 5:18 AM, Robert Scholte wrote: > > Re-reading your request... > > > > bq. Jar > > - This should contain all the class files and dependencies of war > > project. However dependencies should be copied under lib folder of > > this jar and should not be in unpacked form. > > > > I hope you are aware that this conflicts with the jar-specs. The > > classes inside the lib/*.jars won't end up on the classpath, which > > makes this jar useless. > > I'd strongly advice you not to solve it as you described. > > > > thanks, > > Robert > > > > Op Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:33:19 +0100 schreef shailendra singh > > <[email protected]>: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Thank you for your response. > >> > >> I am already aware about these two parameters. > >> > >> I don't thing 'archiveClasses' parameter will be of any help in my case. > >> > >> I had tried to use 'attachClasses' initially but I could not figure > >> out how to pull war dependencies (and that too in a lib folder) in > >> the jar file which will be generated by setting this parameter to true. > >> > >> So I have no solution for my problem yet. > >> > >> Thanks > >> Shailendra > >> > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: Creating a jar and a war from a war project > >>> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:54:58 +0100 > >>> From: [email protected] > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> have a look at the following parameters of the manve-war plugin: > >>> - archiveClasses[1] > >>> - attachClasses[2] > >>> > >>> I suggest *not* to use the maven-assembly-plugin in this case. It'll > >>> make > >>> things over-complex. > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> Robert > >>> > >>> [1] > >>> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/war-mojo.html#archiveClasses > >>> > >>> > >>> [2] > >>> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/war-mojo.html#attachClasses > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Op Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:03:22 +0100 schreef shailendra singh > >>> <[email protected]>: > >>> > >>> > Hi, > >>> > > >>> > For some reason I am struggling to > >>> > create a war and a jar from a maven war project. I want to create > >>> these > >>> > two artifacts from my maven war project with following requirements - > >>> > > >>> > Jar > >>> > - This should contain all the class files and dependencies of war > >>> > project. However dependencies should be copied under lib folder of > >>> this > >>> > jar and should not be in unpacked form. This part is giving me > >>> problem. > >>> > > >>> > War > >>> > - For war I simply want to have static artifacts and nothing > >>> which is > >>> > present under WEB-INF folder. I am able to achieve this using > >>> maven war > >>> > plugin. > >>> > > >>> > Here is the code present under <build> tag of my pom.xml - > >>> > <build> > >>> > <plugins> > >>> > <plugin> > >>> > <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> > >>> > <configuration> > >>> > <source>1.8</source> > >>> > <target>1.8</target> > >>> > </configuration> > >>> > </plugin> > >>> > <plugin> > >>> > <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> > >>> > <configuration> > >>> > <descriptors> > >>> > <descriptor>assembly.xml</descriptor> > >>> > </descriptors> > >>> > <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId> > >>> > <archive> > >>> > <manifest> > >>> > <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> > >>> > <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix> > >>> > </manifest> > >>> > </archive> > >>> > </configuration> > >>> > <executions> > >>> > <execution> > >>> > <id>jar-with-dependencies-in-lib</id> > >>> > <phase>package</phase> > >>> > <goals> > >>> > <goal>single</goal> > >>> > </goals> > >>> > </execution> > >>> > </executions> > >>> > </plugin> > >>> > <plugin> > >>> > <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> > >>> > <configuration> > >>> > <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/</packagingExcludes> > >>> > <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml> > >>> > </configuration> > >>> > </plugin> > >>> > > >>> > </plugins> > >>> > </build> > >>> > > >>> > Here is content of assembly.xml file which is located directly under > >>> > project root directory - > >>> > > >>> > <assembly > >>> > > >>> xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2"; > >>> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > >>> > > >>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 > >>> > http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd";> > >>> > <id>jar-with-dependencies-in-lib</id> > >>> > <formats> > >>> > <format>jar</format> > >>> > </formats> > >>> > <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> > >>> > <fileSets> > >>> > <fileSet> > >>> > > >>> <directory>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/lib</directory> > >>> > <includes> > >>> > > >>> <include>target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/classes</include> > >>> > </includes> > >>> > </fileSet> > >>> > </fileSets> > >>> > </assembly> > >>> > > >>> > I > >>> > feel that I don't need maven-war-plugin at all and both the > >>> artifacts > >>> > can be created using maven assembly plugin only. However I am > >>> unable to > >>> > figure out how to achieve this. > >>> > > >>> > - Shailendra > >>> > > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >>> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] >
