Hi guys, I've had a comment exchange on my blog with Brian Fox ( http://sebastien-arbogast.com/index.php/2008/04/11/flex-spring-and-blazeds-the-full-stack-part-2/#comment-126) because I would like to find a natural solution to share confirguration files between two modules. In this case, I'm building a Flex+BlazeDS+Spring applications with two modules, one for the flex part, and the other one for the web application. And both of those modules need the same configuration files. For now, the only solution I've found is to duplicate those files in src/main/resources for each module. Brian suggested that I could put those files in a third module to package them up using assembly, and then retrieve these in both modules that need it. But it doesn't seem very natural to me.
As a matter of fact, I don't think that this use case is very rare. I mean, there are situatiosn where you want to reuse icon graphics or configuration files in several modules. And it would be great if we could place those resources in the parent module and have the submodules inherit resources from their parent. What do you think? Would it be feasible? Would it be okay with best practices promoted by Maven? -- Sébastien Arbogast http://sebastien-arbogast.com
