Hi Damon, Thanks for replying, I can see what you're getting at. I don't really want to start explicitly naming files or their locations in my poms (as the folk developing the files to overlay are not maven-friendly and the overlay is a 3rd-party war) so I'll stick to using version 2.0.1. I found a lot of discussion around this issue that seemed to be heading in the direction I was looking for, and was hoping that I could find more news on it.
Kind regards, Conan Cook Senior Applications Developer Academic Technologies Group (ATG) University of the West of England Frenchay Campus Bristol BS16 1QY email: conan.c...@uwe.ac.uk telephone: 01173 281 053 -----Original Message----- From: Damon Silver [mailto:damon.sil...@diio.net] Sent: 10 November 2009 18:59 To: 'Maven Users List' Subject: RE: maven-war-plugin overlay ordering Inside your configuration for maven-war-plugin, I would do something like this (this is untested but approximate): ... <overlays> <overlay> <id>someOverlay</id> <groupId>foo.bar</groupId> <artifactId>baz.bax</artifactId> <type>war</type> <includes> <include>path/to/directory/**</include> </includes> <targetPath>somewhere/out/of/the/way</targetPath> </overlay> <overlay> <!-- Empty groupId/artifactId detected as the current build. someOverlay overlays must come before this for <webResources> block below to work properly! --> </overlay> </overlays> <webResources> <resource> <directory>${project.build.directory}/war/work/yourProjectsGroupId/somewhere /out/of/the/way</directory> <targetPath>new/directory</targetPath> <includes> <include>fileToOverwriteWith1</include> <include>fileToOverwriteWith2</include> <include>fileToOverwriteWith3</include> </include> </resource> </webResources> ... - Damon -----Original Message----- From: Conan Cook [mailto:conan.c...@uwe.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:46 AM To: 'users@maven.apache.org' Subject: maven-war-plugin overlay ordering Dear Maven Folk, This is a query that's been asked before relating to the maven-war-plugin, but I've done some digging and I can't find an answer, so I'd be very grateful if anyone can point me in the right direction. I've got a project A which depends on a war B and so I'm using an overlay. I need to replace some of the files in B with modified versions that live in A. The maven-war-plugin versions 2.0 and 2.0.1 do this fine, but versions after that don't - they overwrite the files I've got in the parent project A with ones from B, but I never want that to happen. I've tried re-ordering the overlay using the <overlays> element, and specifying an empty <overlay> to identify the current project. I've tried this with versions 2.1-alpha-1, 2.1-alpha-2 and 2.1-beta-1, and there is no order I can specify the overlays in any of them to ensure that files from the dependency do not overwrite the files in my project. I've seen issues that refer to this, and which say the issue is resolved (e.g. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-47, http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-66) but I cannot find a way to achieve the desired behaviour in any version of the plugin after 2.0.1. There is a currently open Major issue (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-149) which describes the problem I have, but it was raised 20 months ago and nobody has commented on it, suggesting that development effort has moved elsewhere. Does anybody know of a way to achieve this using version 2.1-x of the maven-war-plugin? Thanks very much, Conan Cook Senior Applications Developer Academic Technologies Group (ATG) University of the West of England Frenchay Campus Bristol BS16 1QY This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org This incoming email to UWE has been independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were detected This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
