I can definitely see your point. In practice, I usually jar up all the servlet code and keep it in the /WEB-INF/lib directory and only use the /classes directory for .properties files. So your solution might be the way to go (but I'm at least going to try Matt's because I want to see it work)
Thanks for the help, guys ; ) -- N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonnek, Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:00 PM Subject: RE: Maven at wartime > The project.properties should be all you need. > > I'm afraid you'll run into difficulties if you are trying to generate two > artifacts from the same project (ie: a jar file and a war file). Maven best > practices dictate that they should be broken up into one project per > artifact. This is the way I go with all of my internal projects and it > works great. If you try to "buck the system" and customize it....I usually > find that it's more troublesome than beneficial. > > Ryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: n. alex rupp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Maven at wartime > > Hello. I'm working with maven to try to generate a WAR for the evolving > geronimo console, and I'm having some difficulty finding my way through the > config files. Specifically, I need to depart from the standard war task and > set > some properties but I can't for the life of me figure out where those > settings > should take place. > > The maven.xml file in the console-web module directory contains the > following: > > <project default="default" > xmlns:j="jelly:core" > xmlns:u="jelly:util" > xmlns:ant="jelly:ant"> > > <goal name="default"> > <attainGoal name="war"/> > </goal> > </project> > > I'm curious--where do I set properties like "maven.war.src.excludes"? Right > now > everything in src/java gets compiled into a classes directory, but I need to > generate a .jar for the tag library specific classes. > > I've been reading the war docs at the maven site and I'm at a complete loss. > The project directory has a project.properties file, but it seems not to > recognize the property when I place it there... > > I'm sorry if this belongs on the maven users list, but I thought I'd fish > here > first because I know you guys ; ) I'm afraid I'm still learning the guts of > maven. > > -- > N. Alex Rupp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >
