It should. I consider this a bug, but I'll defer to the developers... Frank Russo Senior Developer FX Alliance, LLC
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 9:06 PM > To: Maven Users List > Cc: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > > > Dear all, > Maven war plugin doesn't copy empty folder to .war file. > > > > > > > > thanks. > Tel: (020)36315358-328 Fax: (020)36315170 > > > > > > "Brian E. Fox" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: > "Maven Users List" <[email protected]> > > inity.nu> cc: > > > Subject: RE: > including empty directories in a war build > > 20/12/2005 07:42 > > > Please respond to > > > "Maven Users > > > List" > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah, I misunderstood you. I thought you already had the folder > but the war plugin was skipping the empty dirs. Glad you got > it working. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 4:39 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > I got it working using the antrun plugin as follows (not sure > if the best way, but it was the only way it worked): > <plugins> > <plugin> > <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> > <executions> > <execution> > <phase>compile</phase> > <configuration> > <tasks> > <mkdir > dir="target/fxalladmin/WEB-INF/bigbrother"/> > </tasks> > </configuration> > <goals> > <goal>run</goal> > </goals> > </execution> > </executions> > </plugin> > </plugins> > > Alternate solutions are welcome... > > > Frank Russo > Senior Developer > FX Alliance, LLC > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian E. Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 4:10 PM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > > > > > Bummer. I'm not sure how that would work without code changes then. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Frank Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:50 PM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > > > I see where you meant. The includes element is for configuring a > > resource. By doing that, if I could get it to work, that would > > automatically put it in web-inf/classes. All resources go into the > > web-inf/classes directory. I need it to go in web-inf. > > > > Also, I tried a bunch of combinations with the includes > just to see if > > > it would copy the empty folder, but it didn't work... > > > > Frank Russo > > Senior Developer > > FX Alliance, LLC > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Frank Russo > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:15 PM > > > To: Maven Users List > > > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > > > > > > > > Do you mean for the <plugin> element in the pom? Just want > > to clarify > > > where you are suggesting this. > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > > > Frank Russo > > > Senior Developer > > > FX Alliance, LLC > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Brian E. Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 1:13 PM > > > > To: Maven Users List > > > > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > > > > > > > > > > > Although hardly an expert, I have poked around in the war > > plugin. It > > > > > > uses the plexus directory scanner to gen a list of artifacts to > > > > include. This is probably why it won't find empty > > folders. You may > > > > be able to override this using the includes/excludes > > settings (note > > > > that currently , separated lists don't work). (ie you > > could add an > > > > include to /foldername that you wanted to keep) > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Frank Russo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:12 AM > > > > To: Maven Users List > > > > Subject: RE: including empty directories in a war build > > > > > > > > It's an internal existing app. People who support it, > > know why it's > > > > there. A readme would just an added file to keep around > in source > > > > control. > > > > > > > > There has to be a way to do it without having a file. > This is very > > > > > simple in ant. You just add a mkdir call to your task > > prior to the > > > > war command being called... > > > > > > > > Frank Russo > > > > Senior Developer > > > > FX Alliance, LLC > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Jesse McConnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 11:06 AM > > > > > To: Maven Users List > > > > > Subject: Re: including empty directories in a war build > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > personally I would drop a README file in each directory > > > and explain > > > > > what that directory is doing there...it would help others > > > > who stumble > > > > > across the situation... > > > > > > > > > > just a thought.. > > > > > > > > > > On 12/19/05, Frank Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm creating a war file that will eventually be > > > exploded into the > > > > > > tomcat webapp directory. I have some shell script files > > > that run > > > > > > behind the scene's of my webapp. When the war is exploded, > > > > > it needs to > > > > > > have created a bin directory under the WEB-INF > > directory of the > > > > > > webapp. I haven't been able to figure out to do this with > > > > > Maven. I'm > > > > > > using 2.0.1. It seems to only include directories that > > > have files. > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to explicitly say to create an empty > directory? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > > > > > > > > > Frank Russo > > > > > > Senior Developer > > > > > > FX Alliance, LLC > > > > > > 900 Third Avenue, 3rd Floor > > > > > > New York, NY 10022 > > > > > > 646.268.9949 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > jesse mcconnell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security > System. 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