You might like to try war:install/deploy-snapshot which does this automatically with a UTC timestamp on the end as the version.
To get a date yourself, are you sure there isn't a jelly taglib for that? I thought there was a <fmt:/> or something, after all it is mimicing a lot of JSTL. You could also use an appropriate ant tag (although its been so long I've forgotten what its called - <tstamp/> I think). Cheers, Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Irwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 16 January 2004 10:21 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Constructing Dates on the Fly? > > > Folks-- > > I need to rename my war file to meet some hosting / > production /process requirement. > > Changing the name is no problem. > > However, I'd like to be able to insert a date in the middle > of it so I can do something like: > > project-date-lifecycle.war > > Is there an obvious way to get a date (and format it) using > jelly or some other thing in maven.xml? > > Perusing the jelly core tags, I suppose I could instantiate a > jave.util.Date object, then a simple date formatter object, > but that seems like a lot of work. > > Alternately, I could manually change the <currentVersion/> > element in project.xml, or use some other property I manually > set (using -D for instance), but, well, it would be ever so > much nicer if there was something like: > > <j:setDate var="mydate" when="current" format="yyyy-MM-dd"/> > > Do I dare hope? > > Keith > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
