Hey everyone I have been having a difficult time figuring out the best process to work with maven when building webapps. Here is how I started: Eclipse 3, with myEclipseIDE and of course maven. I had my webapp project and another non-webapp project. This was working pretty well, I had eclipse set the nonwebapp project as dependent to my webapp, so whenever i deployed it would jar up the classes and chuck them into my web-inf/lib folder and everything was great. All up until I found that I needed a resource from my webapp to be placed on the class path, so something like \src\resources\myContext.xml (Spring) needed to be sitting in \WEB-INF\classes, or the root of my classes jar file. Well maven handles this easily by including it in the jar resources section. However Eclipse the only way to do this (as far as I am aware) is to put it into my \src\java directory and have it copy it in with my classes. And I DO NOT like doing that because basically its just a hack. Ideally I'd like to have maven rebuild stuff anytime there are changes, kind of like eclipse's auto build, however I don't know if thats feasible? It just seems like your fighting two battles using maven and an IDE, the first battle is to get maven to work correctly in the commandline, and the second battle is to attempt to have your ide do what maven does for includes and stuff. I know you can execute maven targets from within eclipse, and I've tried that, but it gets annoying having to constantly click the targets every time you change anything so you can see how it looks in your webbrowser.
Anyway I guess that was a lot of random thoughts put together.. I guess I'm just curious how everyone else is doing this, I'm open to switching to IntelliJ if i has a lot better support for this kind of thing.. eclipse has been driving me nuts lately. Thanks all, David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
