Maybe you can solve this by using multiple WAR projects that the EAR project depends on.
-- Lee On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Doug Hughes <dhug...@alagad.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been writing to the list off and on over the past few days. I'm a > > ColdFusion developer and I'm looking at Maven for a few different > reasons. > > Mainly, I'm exploring the option of using Groovy+Spring+Hibernate to > create > > the service layers and models for my applications. ColdFusion is simply > a > > JEE app that can compile CFML code to Java bytecode and execute it. > > > > A typicaly ColdFuson developer would treat ColdFusion similar to how a > PHP > > developer might. IE, they'd connect ColdFusion (running in its > container) > > to a web server like Apache and have it compile and run CFML source code. > > However, because CF is Java we also have the ability to easily > instantiate > > Java classes and work with them. CF is great for presentation work and > many > > OO development tasks, but it's interpreted nature can sometimes cause > > issues. So there's a bit of a moment to look at Groovy to create a > > Java-based, compiled model and then using MVC frameworks in ColdFusion > for > > presentation. This also makes a nice way to share an application's model > > between Flex and HTML UIs. > > > > Anyhow, ColdFusion itself can be deployed as a WAR or EAR file. If you > do > > a > > WAR deployment there's actually both a cfusion.war and rds.war file. > Both > > are needed to get the full range of features of the language and server. > > If > > I deployed the ear file both war files are included in it. If I were to > > deply war files to Jboss, for example, I'd put both war files (epanded) > > into > > the /server/default/deploy directory. > > > > When working with Maven, I'm not quite sure how to accomplish this. I've > > found that if I can expand the cfusion.war into the default webapp > > archetype's src/main/webapp directory and it will "just work". However, > > I'm > > not sure where to put the rds.war, or if it's even possible to run more > > than > > on war file through maven. How would you do this? > > > I'm not sure what you mean by run more than one through Maven.... > > > > > > My ultimate goal would be to have something like this: > > > > A parent project to build everything. > > > > A child project for my Groovy/Java code. This gets compiled into a jar > and > > used by my next child project. > > > > Another child project which would be a webapp with the cfusion.war and > > rds.war deployed into it, along with any CFML code and the jar created in > > the first child project. This would be built into.... well, I'm not 100% > > sure. :) Probably a war file that would be deployed to a server.... but > > maybe it would really just be one war which as CF, my jar, and CFML code. > > The second rds.war would be used essentialy as-is. > > > > Are you talking about building something using the Coldfusion wars, or > deploying it. I'm confused. > > > > > Anyhow, I'd appreciate your feedback and suggestions. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Doug Hughes > > > -- -- Lee Meador Sent from gmail. My real email address is lee AT leemeador.com
