Hi Chris,
I was looking for copying jar files into war file using maven.
Ur ant plugin helped me a lot to accomplish tht task.
Thank u very much
Regards,
Satheesh
chris.r.grigg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been scratching my head on this one for awhile.
>
> We have an applet which the class files are packaged up into a JAR file.
> This JAR file is then packaged up inside a WAR file which then gets
> packaged in an EAR file so that it can be deployed onto Websphere
> Application Server 6.1 (our web app server).
> Now in order for the JAR file to be seen on the clients end (not on the
> web server we are deploying the war file to), the JAR file must not live
> inside the "WEB-INF\lib" directory. The JAR file must sit inside the root
> directory of the WAR. This allows the user to access the JAR file and
> download it to their PC
> instead of the JAR file being processed server sidedly so that they can
> access the JAR that has the applet and run the applet client sidedly.
>
> It appears that something did exist for maven 1.0 in the WAR building
> goal, but it was removed in maven 2.0. So now in order to manually put
> this file, i have to do some ugly ant script in the artifact which builds
> the WAR file, like this:
>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
> <executions>
> <execution>
> <id>move-jars</id>
> <phase>package</phase>
> <configuration>
> <tasks>
> <echo message="***Unzipping
> war***" />
> <unzip
> src="${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}-${version}.war"
> dest="${basedir}/tmp">
>
> <patternset>
> <include name="**"
> />
> </patternset>
> </unzip>
> <echo message="***war unzipped***"
> />
> <move
> todir="${basedir}/tmp">
> <fileset
> dir="${basedir}/tmp/WEB-INF/lib">
> <include
> name="**/*.jar" />
> </fileset>
> </move>
> <echo message="***Deleting
> old war***" />
> <delete
> file="${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}-${version}.war" />
> <delete
> includeEmptyDirs="true">
> <fileset
> dir="${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}-${version}" />
> </delete>
> <echo message="***Creating
> new war***" />
> <zip
> destfile="${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}-${version}.war"
> basedir="${basedir}/tmp" update="true" />
> <echo
> message="***Unzipping new war***" />
>
> <unzip
> src="${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}-${version}.war"
> dest="${project.build.directory}/${artifactId}-${version}">
> <patternset>
> <include
> name="**" />
> </patternset>
> </unzip>
> <echo message="***Deleting
> tmp dir***" />
> <delete
> includeEmptyDirs="true">
> <fileset
> dir="${basedir}/tmp" />
> </delete>
> </tasks>
> </configuration>
> <goals>
> <goal>run</goal>
> </goals>
> </execution>
> </executions>
> </plugin>
>
>
> Does anyone know a more better solution to achieving this?
>
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