I thought i sent this [1] earlier but it never got through. Still, this can be improved, the solution forces the EAR POM to include explicitly all WAR dependencies, which results in duplicate markup between the POMs.
[1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/skinny-wars.html Thanks for the help all, Manos Quoting Stephane Nicoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On 2/6/07, Manos Batsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey Marco, > > > > Thanks for your email. > > > > Quoting Marco Mistroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > any particular reason for not using maven-ear-plugin, since it > will > > > generate manifest classpath entries based on dependencies of your > > > projects? > > > > Even if you do this, it won't work AFAIK since it's not part of the > spec. The way to define dependencies between an EJB module and > third-party libs is to define a manifest for the *EJB* module. > > Does this actually work? On which app server? > > > * Will the WAR and EJB-JAR obey the EAR manifest? I used to create > the > > manifest for those modules with Ant for this structure to work. > > I am pretty sure it won't work and this way of working is not > compliant anyway. > > Back to your original question, this is an interesting use case. Why > don't you generate the manifest when you actually build your EJB > modules? Maven can do this for your (see the archive settings). > > Regards, > Stéphane > > > > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Manos > > > > > > > > hth > > > marco > > > > > > On 2/6/07, Manos Batsis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Back in my Ant-based projects i used the pathconvert to > generate > > > > manifest files from myruntime.classpathref. I also filtered all > > > those > > > > jars out of my WARs/WEB-INF/lib and put them in the EAR/lib, > where > > > > (thanks to the manifests) both EJBs and WAR classes could > access > > > them, > > > > avoiding duplication of library JARs. > > > > > > > > I'm getting ready to port the same logic through the antrun > plugin, > > > then > > > > use exclusions and what not to finally end up with the same > > > structure > > > > and was wondering if there is a better way to do this. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > > > Manos > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > 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]
