Yes, I've been playing around with getting the development/production part working, and I think I've got it.
I am still having problems getting the yuicompressor:compress goal to be called at the right time. The problem is that the war:war goal has a bunch of actions backed into it, and I don't know a way to wire into it and call the yuicompressor:compress goal just after it copies the webResources directory. If I can solve that, I think I am golden. But I don't know if that can be done. Ken On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >> > > > > > > > > >
