Hi Wayne,
Thanx for the instant reply. We were looking for Maven for its
integrated report generation structure. As the support for various reporting
tools is quite impressive.
As you mentioned that we can use maven for complete web-app generation. Is
it still possible with the exploded or split directory structure.
Intermediate steps I would get done by using Ant scripts. But report
generations we wanted with Maven.
Would it be still possible with it. Say by writing any plugin.Or maintaining
such strutures with Maven is out of its scope
On 3/9/06, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> First off, Maven may not be the right tool for every person/project.
> If you already have a good build process in Ant that you're happy
> with, its not always true that you should move to Maven.
>
> In this case, I would "only" use Maven to build up a complete webapp
> when you are ready to deploy, or when your non-JSP code changes. There
> are ways to explode the WAR after packaging, I'm not using it so I
> can't tell you details. I believe the goal is war:explode... maybe
> someone else who is using exploded WARs will respond with more info??
>
> I would write an Ant script to copy the JSPs into the exploded
> directory so when your JSPs change, you can just copy them with a
> quick "ant jsp" command. There are probably ways to do this with Maven
> as well (using Antrun or perhaps Assembly) but there's no particular
> reason why you must do it in Maven, so I'd just do it in plain old Ant
> as it is simpler.
>
> Point your app server at the exploded directory and run the webapp
> from there, jsps will be automatically picked up, etc.
>
> Wayne
>
>
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Chetan Mehrotra
