<project>
...
<packaging>war</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<*archiveClasses>false</****archiveClasses>***
</configuration>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Marco Mistroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> > >
> >
>
