Maven is not that much more difficult then ant, it is different. Please take a look at the maven book [1], this explains everything in a very good way!
Oh, and for your compile problem. Put your java sources in src/main/java, your resources in src/main/resources, your unit tests in src/test/java/ en your unit test resources in src/test/java. These are the default directories for maven. Hth, [1] http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/index.html Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ Iprofs BV. Claus Sluterweg 125 2012 WS Haarlem www.iprofs.nl On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Joey Krane <linuxbsd2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm exploring Maven and hence started to work with a simple web > application. I used the one I had already (mywebapp) > > with the following directory structure. > > mywebapp/ > login.html > wEB-INF/ > src/LoginServlet.java > src/EmailServlet.java > web.xml > > I used to manually compile my sources and copy them to > WEB-INF/classes/mywebapp The application works well with tomcat. > > Enter Maven and what a nightmare! I haven't used any tool that is as > complicated as Maven! You may all diagree (since you know maven) but > for firsttime users, this is useless. > > I installed Maven and compiled the Hello World test application successfully. > > Then I created a webapp archetype, > > $ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=mywebapp -DartifactId=mywebapp > -DpackageName=mywebapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp > -Dversion=1.0.0 > > (oh yeah, it complains that "create" is deprecated and to use > "generate"... while there is no mention of this anywhere online) > > I copied my source to resources/, and web.xml to the WEB-INF/ > > Here's my pom.xml > > <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > <groupId>mywebapp</groupId> > <artifactId>mywebapp</artifactId> > <packaging>war</packaging> > <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> > <name>poc Maven Webapp</name> > <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>junit</groupId> > <artifactId>junit</artifactId> > <version>3.8.1</version> > <scope>test</scope> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > <build> > <finalName>LoginServlet</finalName> > </build> > </project> > > And when I run mvn compile, I get > > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Building mywebapp Maven Webapp > [INFO] task-segment: [compile] > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] [resources:resources] > [INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources. > [INFO] [compiler:compile] > [INFO] No sources to compile > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 1 second > [INFO] Finished at: Tue Dec 16 14:15:55 IST 2008 > [INFO] Final Memory: 6M/86M > [INFO] ----------------------------- > > So I'm not sure where to go from here. Most examples never talk about > the compile process and what happens during this phase. I have looked > plenty online for help and clues but found none to be useful. The > maven documentation itself is complicated. > > Why isn't there a simple webapplication example using maven?. No i > don't want to use Jetty. I just want to compile a war file and deploy > it on tomcat (manually). > > Sorry for venting. Ant is so much better in simplicity. But I don't > want to use Ant tasks in Maven since my application will grow to be > complex and I want to use Maven as advertised but the learning curve > sucks! > > Joey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
