Warner,
Is it possible to check out the skeleton at the same directory, and reuse it's files via ../skeleton/*?
Maybe not, but it's a suggestion...
Good Luck, Chad
Warner Onstine wrote:
I recently was put on to a new project and spent most of yesterday puzzling through this and trying to figure out the best way to do this. Admittedly this is more than just a project layout question, there are some other larger issues at play here that I would like to pose to the list to help figure out the best way to do this.
We have a Struts application that was written for one client. This application was then used for another client (copy the code, modify, deploy). This happened many times, then they created a base application which could then be used as the "skeleton" app and created a client directories for only the files that needed to get modified. I now have the dubious honor of creating a new client and have been trying to mavenize it from the old ant build which contains many targets that are common to all client projects (ie - these would make great plugins).
Now I'm struggling with how to best incorporate the master skeleton files into this client project. Here is what I came up with, but would love feedback from others.
Option 1: One thing to do would be to copy the files from the skeleton in a pre-compile goal so that they get built along with the changed files. I would also need to do the same with the webapp files.
Option 2: Create a build for the master project that builds everything into a jar file and make a dependency on it. I would still have to copy the webapp files down to the client when building the war. And I also don't know if any "core" java files get modified in the client (they shouldn't, it should be an inheritance thing, but again I don't know).
That's about all I came up with, without rearchitecting the whole application at this time (which it undoubtedly needs, but I can't afford that time right now, hopefully in the near future I can examine this possibility further).
Hoping to hear some good suggestions.
-warner
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