Stephen,
thanks a lot! it was exactly what i was after
any chances u can share your pom.xml?
thanks in advance and regards
marco
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Stephen Connolly <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have developed a lot of web apps with Maven and IDEA.
>
> The war plugin builds an exploded war file in target/${
> project.build.finalName}
>
> There is a configuration option for the war plugin that controls whether
> it
> packages up the classes in the war module as a jar file and puts that in
> WEB-INF/lib or leaves them as classes in WEB-INF/classes
>
> As to the other dependencies, if they don't end up in WEB-INF/lib, how
> will
> you know that your webapp works?
>
> -Stephen
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Marco Mistroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > hello all
> > @work, we are developing a web application using IntelliJ IDEA.
> > we are not using maven, so structure of directory is as follows
> >
> > jsp (contains jsps and WEB-INF)
> > src
> > |__ java
> > |__ test
> >
> > plus, we are launching tomcat from intelliJ, making tomcat point to the
> > exploded directory jsp (in fact, the target-classes directory is
> > jsp\web-inf\classes)
> >
> > we are using ant to build the app, which put all the classes in
> > jsp\web-inf\classes. we have tomcat pointing to that directory so that
> > every
> > change in the jsp
> > is immediately reflected on the browser.
> >
> > i wanted to move to maven, but i feel the directory structure imposed by
> > maven will prevent me from doing what i am doing now.
> > as example
> >
> > maven build a WAR in the target\<yourartifact> directory... .. so
> > unless i 'hack' maven by
> > specifying as target-classes directory the jsp\web-inf\classes, i'll
> > have
> > problems...
> > also because in building war maven automatically add all the
> dependencies
> > to
> > web-inf\lib directory.....
> >
> > i feel i cannot do that with maven.... unless i do some hacks
> >
> >
> > has anyone ever end up in a similar situation?
> >
> >
> > regards
> > marco
> >
>
