this is a perfect use case for profiles. in the release profile you use yui-compress to copy them into the war
in a development profile you add warResources to construct the war from the direct sources.... that (assuming the tomcat maven plugin is written right... jetty can do this for sure) will give development with live editing, and just -Prelease to get the compressed version - Stephen --- Sent from my Android phone, so random spelling mistakes, random nonsense words and other nonsense are a direct result of using swype to type on the screen On 4 Dec 2011 01:52, "Ken Egervari" <ken.egerv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I should just give up on this problem because I don't think Maven > has the ability to solve it, and if it does, I have no idea where to look > for a solution and its clear nobody else writing java web applications > knows how to solve this problem :/ > > I guess I am stuck with manually including each main file on each page > where it is used, or coding everything in an all.js manually :/ > > Even if I can get Maven to properly call the YUI:compress goal at the right > time, I still have maintain two lists of css and javascript files for my > application - one for the aggregations, and one for my freemarker template > that switches between using all the individual source files for > development, or using the all.css/all.js for production. > > I genuinely don't see a nice solution to do what the Rails people have > conveniently got in place. I am totally flustered that the Maven/Spring > combo has no good for answer to this problem :( > > Ken > > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Ken Egervari <ken.egerv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I think the problem is that there is no phase I can merge into just after > > it prepares the war directory - at least not from where I can see in the > > life-cycle documentation. What is the phase name? Is it not any of the > > package or pre-package phases - it is still too early or too late. > > > > Ken > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Jeff MAURY <jeffma...@jeffmaury.com > >wrote: > > > >> By default, the compress goal of the YUI maven plugin is bound to the > >> process-resources phase. > >> So, you need to bind it to another phase after the war plugin has > produced > >> the war directory structure the Tomcat plugin will use. > >> I recommand you also customize the outputDirectory parameter of the YUI > >> maven plugin because the default value does not comply with the standard > >> Maven War directory layout. > >> > >> Regards > >> Jeff MAURY > >> > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> From: fe.character.guide <fe.character.gu...@gmail.com> > >> Date: Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 7:17 AM > >> Subject: YUI Compressor Maven plugin executed at wrong time and tomcat > >> plugin not using yui-compressor output > >> To: users@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > >> Hello everyone! > >> > >> I'm trying to get some basic maven build processes configured correctly > >> with my Java project, and beyond Stackoverflow, I'm not sure > >> where else to turn. > >> > >> I'd like to compress all of my javascript files and aggregate them using > >> YUICompressor, and I saw that there was a maven plugin to allow me to do > >> this. I got it working for the most part. > >> > >> I am also using the Mojo tomcat plugin as well. When i go to run the > >> tomcat:run goal, tomcat does not read from the target's output > >> directory (this is where the YUI compressor put my javascript files) - > but > >> rather, it reads from the actual source files in my "src/main/ > >> webapp/scripts" directory. Of course, the aggregated javascript file > >> (all.js) is not there. This makes sense, but is a big problem for me. > >> > >> I have a few questions. > >> > >> 1. How can I get the tomcat plugin to read the target's output folder > that > >> the yui compressor plugin created? > >> > >> 2. Do I have to run the yui compressor maven goal every time I want to > >> update my javascript files during development while my tomcat instance > is > >> running? > >> > >> 3. How can tell Maven that I want to run the YUI compressor AFTER Maven > >> copies over the `src/main/webapp` directory? Currently, Maven runs the > YUI > >> compressor, but then overwrites all of the compressed css and javascript > >> files with the original source files, defeating the purposes of > >> compressing > >> them ;) > >> > >> 4. Is there a better way to achieve my objective rather than using the > YUI > >> compressor? Essentially, my end goal is to be able to develop JavaScript > >> code in separate files and test my source files in development mode > >> without > >> having to aggregate them... but I want to compress and aggregate the > files > >> and use the `all.js` script when the application is running in > production > >> mode. > >> > >> While the Rails people have certainly figured this out, this seems to > be a > >> non-trivial thing to do with Maven and Spring. > >> I would appreciate any and all assistance on how I can get this running > >> correctly. Thanks! > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually > >> working and scaling. > >> - Bjarne Stroustrup > >> > >> http://www.jeffmaury.com > >> http://riadiscuss.jeffmaury.com > >> http://www.twitter.com/jeffmaury > >> > > > > >
