At the advice of a good friend I'm going to put this together in Ant (or maybe Gant) as an external concern. The reason being there's additional complexity that I can't explain as well in a bulletin board posting. I'll revisit the topic when I get a working solution and then we can discuss if/how to address this with Maven.
Clifton wrote: > > Hello all, > > We have a requirement to build a customized tomcat bundle for deployment. > We currently make a tarball of tomcat bundled with our webapps and give > this to another team responsible for putting everything into production. > The only real requirements is that the bundle is handed off in tar.gz > format and that the bin, common, and shared folders are actually sym links > to predetermined paths. I'm new to the Maven assembly plugin but I'm > thinking this is the guy I would use to accomplish the task. Now my > question is how would I set up my build? We currently have a multi-module > project containing the majority of our project and another separate war > project which is actually a client distribution server. (The client part > of our client/server product is distributed through this other war.) The > distribution server must be deployed live first so that the build for the > rest of the app can talk to it (via HTTP) and deploy the client. Should I > create yet another project/pom to pull both projects together and bundle > tomcat as well? Should I fold the distribution war into the other > multi-module project? Do we need to start checking in pieces of Tomcat? > Can I use the assembly plugin to package all the pieces together some > clever way without requiring a live running war to complete the second > half of deployment? So many questions, so little answers! > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Assembly-howto--tp16468448s177p16469369.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
