Hello Richard, x-posted to dev, as the war-plugin is a core-plugin: - IMO attaching would be the "wrong" term as it has another meaning. - This is more of a "generated" jar (as generated sources, classes etc.) - IMO packages should go in Maven modules of their own.
Regards Mirko -- Sent from my mobile On Aug 20, 2013 5:13 PM, "Richard Sand" <rs...@idfconnect.com> wrote: > Is there any merit to the idea of having a configuration option in > maven-war-plugin to include attached artifacts in the webapp in the same > way it includes dependent artifacts? > > -Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mirko Friedenhagen [mailto:mfriedenha...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:20 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: artifact attached by plugin not appearing in subsequent > plugins > > Richard, > > AFAIK attachArtifact just tells Maven to install an additional binary to > it's local cache resp. to deploy it to the distribution repository. > > What you want, as far as I understand, is to create an artifact which will > be picked up later on and included in a war? You should probably create a > separate module project, which creates the jar and just include this jar as > runtime dependency in your war project. > > Regards Mirko > -- > Sent from my mobile > On Aug 20, 2013 7:42 AM, "Richard Sand" <rs...@idfconnect.com> wrote: > > > I concluded that this was a missing feature of maven-war-plugin, where > > it simply wasn't looking to see if there were attached resources. > > > > I supplied a simple patch to the handleArtifacts() method to have that > > method also handle attached artifacts, You can see the report here. > > https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-304 > > > > -Richard > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Sand [mailto:rs...@idfconnect.com] > > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 6:19 PM > > To: 'Maven Users List' > > Subject: artifact attached by plugin not appearing in subsequent > > plugins > > > > Hi all - I've been stuck for a while trying to get an artifact > > injected by a plugin to apply to subsequent plugins/goals in a > > project. > > > > I have a project which generates a web application. My use case here > > is the obfuscator plugin which I wrote, which creates a jar file > > called "<projectname>-small.jar". The plugin creates jar file using > > MavenProjectHelper.attachArtifact(). The plugin executes during the > > packaging phase, before the maven-war-plugin. The jar file is created > > successfully, and the call to attachArtifact() returns with no errors, > > but the maven-war-plugin does not "see" the jar file and therefore > > doesn't include it in the results. When I turn on debugging I can see > > maven-war-plugin copying the other project artifacts into > > target/<projectname>/WEB-INF/lib. > > > > Have I missed a step? I know I can explicitly configure > > maven-war-plugin to grab the new artifact, but I thought the point of > > "attachArtifact" was to inject the new artifact into the flow. > > > > Appreciate any insight into what I'm doing wrong... > > > > Thanks! > > > > -Richard > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
