You created your project with the sample webapp as archetype. It is recommended to seperate your java files and your webapp in seperate modules and add a dependency between the modules. For your first maven project you can simply create the src/main/java yourself (it is just a directory) and put your java files in there.
Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ Iprofs BV. Claus Sluterweg 125 2012 WS Haarlem www.iprofs.nl On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Joey Krane <linuxbsd2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Nick Stolwijk <nick.stolw...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Maven is not that much more difficult then ant, it is different. >> >> Please take a look at the maven book [1], this explains everything in >> a very good way! > > Yes, I did refer to this as well. It does not talk about an end to end > web application example or for moving from ant to maven in web > application context. > >> >> Oh, and for your compile problem. Put your java sources in >> src/main/java, > > I don't see src/main/java but only src/main/resources and src/main/webapp > >> your resources in src/main/resources, > > Is resources the same as my source code? If so, I tried that and I > still get No resources to compile .. or something similar. > >> your unit tests > > I haven't gone that far yet. I'm still struggling to get a simple > webapplication to compile and create a war file. > > Joey > > >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Joey Krane <linuxbsd2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm exploring Maven and hence started to work with a simple web >>> application. I used the one I had already (mywebapp) >>> >>> with the following directory structure. >>> >>> mywebapp/ >>> login.html >>> wEB-INF/ >>> src/LoginServlet.java >>> src/EmailServlet.java >>> web.xml >>> >>> I used to manually compile my sources and copy them to >>> WEB-INF/classes/mywebapp The application works well with tomcat. >>> >>> Enter Maven and what a nightmare! I haven't used any tool that is as >>> complicated as Maven! You may all diagree (since you know maven) but >>> for firsttime users, this is useless. >>> >>> I installed Maven and compiled the Hello World test application >>> successfully. >>> >>> Then I created a webapp archetype, >>> >>> $ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=mywebapp -DartifactId=mywebapp >>> -DpackageName=mywebapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp >>> -Dversion=1.0.0 >>> >>> (oh yeah, it complains that "create" is deprecated and to use >>> "generate"... while there is no mention of this anywhere online) >>> >>> I copied my source to resources/, and web.xml to the WEB-INF/ >>> >>> Here's my pom.xml >>> >>> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; >>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; >>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 >>> http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> >>> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> >>> <groupId>mywebapp</groupId> >>> <artifactId>mywebapp</artifactId> >>> <packaging>war</packaging> >>> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> >>> <name>poc Maven Webapp</name> >>> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> >>> <dependencies> >>> <dependency> >>> <groupId>junit</groupId> >>> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> >>> <version>3.8.1</version> >>> <scope>test</scope> >>> </dependency> >>> </dependencies> >>> <build> >>> <finalName>LoginServlet</finalName> >>> </build> >>> </project> >>> >>> And when I run mvn compile, I get >>> >>> [INFO] Scanning for projects... >>> [INFO] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> [INFO] Building mywebapp Maven Webapp >>> [INFO] task-segment: [compile] >>> [INFO] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> [INFO] [resources:resources] >>> [INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources. >>> [INFO] [compiler:compile] >>> [INFO] No sources to compile >>> [INFO] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL >>> [INFO] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> [INFO] Total time: 1 second >>> [INFO] Finished at: Tue Dec 16 14:15:55 IST 2008 >>> [INFO] Final Memory: 6M/86M >>> [INFO] ----------------------------- >>> >>> So I'm not sure where to go from here. Most examples never talk about >>> the compile process and what happens during this phase. I have looked >>> plenty online for help and clues but found none to be useful. The >>> maven documentation itself is complicated. >>> >>> Why isn't there a simple webapplication example using maven?. No i >>> don't want to use Jetty. I just want to compile a war file and deploy >>> it on tomcat (manually). >>> >>> Sorry for venting. Ant is so much better in simplicity. But I don't >>> want to use Ant tasks in Maven since my application will grow to be >>> complex and I want to use Maven as advertised but the learning curve >>> sucks! >>> >>> Joey >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
