The main difference is that 2.7 is available on maven central, whereas
2.5 is on the wocommunity server.
2.7 is also built with other dependencies moved to maven central,
woenvironment and woproject-ant-tasks. You can see the pom.xml for the
2.7 in the central branch for differences.
https://github.com/wocommunity/wolifecycle-maven-plugin/blob/central/pom.xml
They're basically the same thing, for now... :) I'm working on jigsaw
packaging and will likely need to update where it puts resources in the
future. Since original NSBundles all put a top level /Resources
directory in the jar, that is seen as a split package. I'm planning to
relocate them into /META-INF/webobjects/Resources for a new release of
webobjects and wonder.
I have more work to do, but I have just successfully launched the first
fully modular webobjects application for the first time.
https://github.com/nullterminated/SimpleWOApp/tree/modular-webobjects
Happy Halloween from Japan,
Ramsey
On 10/30/25 9:28 AM, Paul Hoadley wrote:
Hi Ricardo,
On 26 Oct 2025, at 00:07, Ricardo Parada via Webobjects-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
I’ve seen Wonder seems to use this plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.wocommunity</groupI>
<artifactId>wolifecycle-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</plugin>
But I’ve also seen in the SimpleWOApp from Ramsey this one:
<plugin>
<groupId>io.github.wocommunity</groupI>
<artifactId>wolifecycle-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
</plugin>
This one the version is 2.7. Does anybody know the differences
between these two? Which one should we use?
The latest here is 2.5, and that's what we're using:
https://github.com/wocommunity/wolifecycle-maven-plugin
Also, our projects still use the Fluffy Bunny layout:
Sources/
Resources/
WebServerResources/
…
When the frameworks build I noticed that the .jar file is not
including the Resources folder which is causing some exceptions.
Should Resources be included inside the .jar file?
Yes. You can get Maven to build from Fluffy Bunny layout (Wonder is
still organised this way—check out the POMs there if you want to do
this), but converting to standard Maven layout is easy. This should
still work:
https://gist.github.com/paulhoadley/cd15b90c94eb8c640fddd9ac3fbbc6dc
Also, the application seems to be built with all Frameworks embedded
within the app. What determines whether or not frameworks are
embedded in the application?
There's no such option. The Maven-built bundle is self-contained and
ready to run.
--
Paul Hoadley
https://logicsquad.net/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/
