We are using maven to build some war and ear files for weblogic. To catch errors early we aree precompiling the ears and wars using a inhouse written weblogic.appc plugin. Two things are a bit annoying :-)
1 The ear and war plugin always overwrites each file, I have tracked this behaviuor to a org.codehaus.plexus.util.FileUtils class. Is it possible to change the behaviuor of this class (add another method) that uses timestamps a la Ant? 2 There would be nice with a phase between 'test' and 'package' where the war/ear would be exploded. Maybe 'mvn assemble'? Then I could call my plugin in that phase and the package would basically just jar the thing together. It would also make development quicker because you could use 'mvn assemble' to deploy your ear/war in an exploded state in your appserver/servletcontainer. /Konstantin
