2012/4/30 Jeff MAURY <jeffma...@jeffmaury.com>:
> Salut Olivier,
>
> I wanted to make sure I understand the goal properly.
> Is the rationale for using src/main/webapp as the default docbase for
> Tomcat to propagate modifications of files on the fly (JSP,...) without the
> need to restart Tomcat ?
Yup that's the goal. Fast dev mode (i.e. no restart) when only
modifying jsp or static resources (html, js, css etc...)
> At least, I think we should make it clear in the documentation and issue a
> warning at runtime when we detect an overlay.
What I can do is to extract the war content (except WEB-INF/lib as
it's already added) under the warSourceDirectory plugin parameter
(default src/main/webapp) which is the docBase (but with a parameter
called extractPath relative to the docBase).
The plugin configuration part could be
<overlays>
<overlay>
<groupId>org.foo</groupId>
<artifactId>bar</artifactId>
<extractPath>bar</extractPath>
</overlay>
</overlays>
What I don't like is people will have to ignore this directory in their scm
The best: extract somewhere (temporary directory) and add this as "a
symlink" in the docBase.
> I will open a JIRA
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Olivier Lamy <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Salut Jeff,
>>
>> Current Overlay support with tomcat6/7:run is very limited (only use
>> jars from WEB-INF/lib of the the war dependencies).
>> Perso, I use maven-dependency-plugin to extract war content (see
>> sample in this pom [1] ).
>> I agree it's "hackhish" :-) and having a better support as in the war
>> plugin could be better.
>> But didn't yet have any time to work on that. (can you create an issue
>> for that ?)
>> As my goal was to cut a release soon (ideally starting release process
>> next week, I'm not sure I will have time to work on that)
>>
>> --
>> Olivier Lamy
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>>
>> [1]
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/archiva/trunk/archiva-modules/archiva-web/archiva-webapp/pom.xml
>>
>> 2012/4/28 Jeff MAURY <jeffma...@jeffmaury.com>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am facing the following problem with WAR overlays:
>> > I have a first WAR, called skeleton, that contains all necessary stuff:
>> > base web.xml, index.jsp and JAR dependencies.
>> > I have another WAR whose first dependency is the skeleton which is (as of
>> > yet) almost empty except for the slf4j_log4 dependency.
>> > When i run tomcat7:run on the skeleton, everything is ok
>> > When I run tomcat7:run on the second war, Tomcat start but I am not able
>> to
>> > use the application.
>> > I have look at the mojo code and it seems it is using the web app source
>> > directory (src/main/webapp) by default so as it is empty my case, it
>> cannot
>> > work.
>> > AM I missing something ?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jeff MAURY
>> >
>> >
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>> > working and scaling.
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>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jeff MAURY
>> >
>> >
>> > "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually
>> > working and scaling.
>> > - Bjarne Stroustrup
>> >
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>
>
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