Brian, I have just spent the past 3 days converting a bunch of my projects from Ant to Maven. Its not that tough, you just have to get used to it.
For starters, there is a "war" target for Maven. Also a "war:webapp".
These bundle up files in:
project-home/src/webapp/
And, it takes anything in:
project-home/src/main/resources/*
and puts it in:
project-name/target/project-name/WEB-INF/classes/To copy files from completely different places, I created my own maven.xml, which is in the same directory as project.xml.
Here, you can override war:war, war:webapp, or run certain tasks before or after they run. So, you create a <postGoal name="war:webapp"> and have it do a few <ant:copy file="" todir=""/> and there you go. If you want me to send you my file let me know.
It takes a bit of getting used to, but it comes. You could also turn your maven.xml into a plugin and then you wouldn't need to copy your maven.xml file into every project.
Charlie
Brian Burridge wrote:
Currently we do our builds with ANT, but I am attempting to move to Maven.
During our deploy, depending on the ANT target you have chosen, it copies files from different directories into the target before building the WAR.
What do you recommend I do in Maven to accomplish building a WAR with different included files? I could use Ant to build the target directories, but that seems temporary. I'd prefer to be 100% Maven.
Brian
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