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Nicolas Marcotte commented on MWAR-9: ------------------------------------- As a maven user and in house plugins developer I wholeheartedly agree. However i would still like to see my updated test and documentations for MWAR-81 included as a stop gap measure. If my last patch to MWAR-81 is included I can document it on the cited wiki, tell the readers to subscribe to MEAR-60 and MEAR-87 for a correct solution while using MWAR-81 while we wait while proper patch is developed. However, I won't update the wiki if MWAR-81 is not included because if there are no test nor documentation on that functionality, it can disappear in any future release and it is a behaviour that would I dislike to see as a maven user and evangelist ^1^ ! # I may have drunk to much Koolaid but,hey!, your maven Koolaid taste so good. > WAR plugin should support minimal WARs for inclusion within an EAR > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: MWAR-9 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-9 > Project: Maven 2.x WAR Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Mike Perham > Assignee: Stephane Nicoll > Fix For: 2.2 > > Attachments: AbstractWarMojo.patch > > > I noticed that when I build a WAR, I get a gigantic WEB-INF/lib with all my > deps. This is fine for a default but maven should also support "skeleton" > WARs which will be packaged within an EAR. We have EARs which package 3-4 > WARs each and to have the deps duplicated within each WAR means we cannot > have shared data (since the classes are loaded within each WAR's classloader, > rather than by the parent EAR's classloader). It also means 80MB EARs! :-) > It seems like two things need to happen: > 1) Add a "skeleton" flag which prevents copying any dependencies to > WEB-INF/lib. > 2) Instead generate a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF which has a Class-Path entry which > lists the relative locations of the dependencies within the parent EAR. > Fabrice has basically the same idea written down here. Starting with "- for > a War..." : > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=turbine-maven-user&m=112737860024530&w=2 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira