That's a great use case to bring up. Sounds like the beginnings of a new plugin. It could parse a project's pom for provided dependencies and retrieve those from maven repository and put them all in a specified dir. Or it could go even further and have a new project type of tomcat-manager that specifies which projects should be deployed in this instance of tomcat. It could retrieve those wars from maven, plus parse for their provided dependencies and populate the shared directory.
Maven may not do everything you want out of the box, but I've been impressed with the foundations it is laying and the possibilities. YMMV. Greg Vaughn [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Attila Mezei-Horvati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/2006 01:41 PM Please respond to "Maven Users List" <users@maven.apache.org> To users@maven.apache.org cc Subject dependcy vs one lib of jars I was reading a lot about how one of maven's best features is the dependency handling: there is no need for a directory of jar files. Everything is specified in the dependency management and the repository has the needed jars. Sounds good. One of my coworkers raised however an issue the other day which I couldn't answer. Any ideas welcome. Here is the story: building with ant, our project had one directory with all the jar files. On our production server the contents of this dir was in the tomcat/shared library (we have several apps running on the servers and they share a lot of the dependencies). Keeping it up to date with new jars was as easy as synching with our ext_libs folder. Now, we use maven. There is no more ext libs folder. The dependencies however are not included in the wars (scope: provided). They are already in the shared lib of tomcat. Question is: how are we supposed to generate the contents of the tomcat ext libs folder at this point? Looking up 100 dependencies from several pom files and extracting the jars from the repository doesn't seem so great. It seems as with the dependency managament suddenly we lost the ease of keeping our production server shared library up to date. I wonder if there is some solution to this. Attila ====================================================================== Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in and transmitted with this communication is strictly confidential, is intended only for the use of the intended recipient, and is the property of Countrywide Financial Corporation or its affiliates and subsidiaries. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of the information contained in or transmitted with the communication or dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited by law. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately return this communication to the sender and delete the original message and any copy of it in your possession. ======================================================================
