> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Jefferson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:01 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: WAR file naming > > > Its been raised as an issue by others but for a Maven newcomer, is there > any reason why the WAR file has a naming that omits the version and > hence is inconsistent with the JAR and EAR namings.
Yes. For many(all?) Servlet engines war file name = root context of the web application. That's why many users prefer to have an artifact which is ready to deploy. > In addition, it uses > the Ant task 'jar' instead of the Ant task 'war'. > Basically war task is simple extension of jar task: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/War .java and really does nothing special but provides you some nested tags which help you to put together files from different locations into war file. In maven this is already solved/configurable in different way and processing without using war task seems to be simpler (e.g. no warning is printed when WEB-INF folder contains web.xml file). Michal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
