The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven WAR Plugin, version 2.1 alpha 1.
This release brings a significant refactoring of the packaging codebase with an improved overlay handling (both zip and war artifacts are now handled). For more information, check the web site: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/ Release Notes - Maven 2.x War Plugin - Version 2.1-alpha-1 ** Bug * [MWAR-66] - No control over war overlay order * [MWAR-69] - Secondary artifacts aren't being attached * [MWAR-72] - Need ability to protect (or exclude) resource from being destroyed during war overlay. * [MWAR-75] - Documentation bugs on http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/usage.html * [MWAR-78] - War overlay can overwrite files in dependant war artifact * [MWAR-79] - <webResources> copy fails in a multi-project build * [MWAR-88] - typos in documentation * [MWAR-90] - Documentation has a typo. * [MWAR-91] - Dependency as type=test-jar and scope=compile not included in WEB-INF/lib on packaging. * [MWAR-92] - Bad xml in sample documentation on website * [MWAR-122] - tests failing in trunk on windows * [MWAR-123] - filtering with @ is working randomly ** Improvement * [MWAR-104] - handle zip dependencies in war plugin * [MWAR-119] - Update plexus-utils to 1.2 ** New Feature * [MWAR-93] - Add the ability to provide a mapping for libraries copied in WEB-INF/lib (outputFileNameMapping) * [MWAR-97] - War plugin and Overlays handling ** Wish * [MWAR-76] - Allow Axis2 archives (.aar files) to be imported into WEB-INF/services directory We expect to release other alphas in the coming week so stay tuned. Enjoy! - The Maven team --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]