>>>>> "CM" == Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CM> Nico, I have had a quick look at your post and I have a few CM> questions. I haven't even found the time for this, sorry. CM> A task along the lines of Stefan's war tsk may be more CM> appropriate. It doesn't try to build the deployment descriptor - CM> it just assembles the war from a set of distributed pieces. I was tempted to automate writing the deployment descriptor as well (and if it only was to shorten the syntax). I've made it the way it is, because I didn't want to add numerous nested elements to the task just to duplicate a structure that could as well be written out directly. I.e. I came to the same conclusion as you. CM> but I am curous as to why the servlet spec uses WEB-INF for wars? Especially since servlet containers must hide META-INF directories if they exist as well. I guess they wanted to physically separate the information about the JAR itself (everything with regard to signing the JAR for example) from the information about the web application contained. Stefan
