You need a multi-project.
I have not setup a maven2 project to build an applet that is deployed as
part of a webapp, so take my advice with a grain of salt.
I would think that you would first need to have a subproject to build a
jar file that contains your applet. The applet code should probably be
separate from your webapp code anyway. Any code that is shared by the
webapp and the applet should be moved to third "shared jar" project that
both the webapp and applet project will depend on.
The next challenge is then to get the applet jar file into the your war
as "content" (rather than getting it into WEB-INF/lib, as would happen
with a dependency). I have a few different ideas about how you might do
that (most of which probably won't work):
* The latest not-yet-released-but-already-in-svn version of the
maven-war-plugin supports resources, which may allow you to specify the
path to the applet jar in the local repository as a resource to include
(as web content) in the war.
* Antoher option would be to write your own plugin to grab the
applet.jar and stick it in ${webappDirectory} during the build.
* Perhaps you can write a little Ant script to grab the applet.jar and
put it in ${webappDirectory}, and then use the maven-antrun-plugin to
execute your Ant script.
* There are some plugins that "merge" war files. Perhaps your applet
subproject could be configured/perverted into putting the compiled class
files into a "web content" location (not under WEB-INF), and then the
applet war could be merged with your main webapp war file.
The general use case of needing to build an applet that is then included
as part of a webapp does seem like a "standard" use case (as opposed to
something "wacky"), so perhaps there will be some features added to the
war plugin to support it.
-Max
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a large web application that currently uses maven 1.02 to build. I
have a need to add an applet to the application. I am having issues with
visibility of the class file from the html page because the default
src/main/java/...... gets built into the webapp/WEB-INF/classes when using
maven for the build. Is there any documentaion or examples of how to build
applets into a web application.
Can I change the target for just the applet classes?
Do I need to create a multi-project?
Any guidence would be appreciated.
Les Olinger ? Product Lead ? SunGard ? Omni ? 104 Inverness Center Place,
Birmingham, AL 35242
Tel 205-437-7820 ? Fax 205-437-7838 ? www.sungard.com/omni
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