Stephen,
thanks a lot! i owe u a beer... let me know when u r around LOndon :)
really, it saved me lot of time!
thanks again and regards
marco
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Stephen Connolly <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <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
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
