Thanks Anders. I'll take a look at Jenkins. Sounds like an interesting learning experience.
Les On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Anders Hammar <and...@hammar.net> wrote: > It is possible. > One way is to use a generic packaging plugin like the > maven-assembly-plugin. If that doesn't fit your desires, or you want a > "nicer solution", writting your own plugin is a different way. For example, > have a look at the Android Maven Plugin which creates android archives. > > That being said, the web app you're talking about should be a standard war > projekt (which uses the maven-war-plugin to produce the war archive). The > desktop app could possibly be a standard jar project. So I don't think you > need any special packaging plugins, but your question is rather how to > handle these two flavors of your application. Something that you should try > to solve, as it will significantly simplify things, is to have only one > package/archive. Have a look at how, for example, the Jenkins projekt has > solved this. They produce a war file that is possible to deploy to a web > container (web app) as well as start from command line (application). When > looking at that topic you're in pure Java land and shouldn't worry about > Maven. > If you need different config files it could be tricky to solve this way > though. > > /Anders > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Les Hartzman <lhartz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm a fairly basic maven user and would like to know if it is possible to > > have maven support multiple type of packaging or if I need to look at a > > different mechanism. > > > > What I want to do is to build a JavaFX application that depending on how > it > > is packaged is either a desktop app or a web app. > > > > There would potentially be some different configuration files that would > > pertain to the different packaging options. > > > > Can I use maven in this way or does someone know of another means of > > accomplishing the same thing? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Les > > >
