Breaking up an existing webapp build

[Frank Russo <fr...@FXALL.com>]

I currently have a standard webapp project with a working m2 build
process. It builds a war with the typical web-inf structure as follows:

	web-inf/classes/*        this is where the app's compiled
classes go.
	web-inf/lib/*.jar        this is where the dependency jars go.

I want to alter my build so that instead of the app's class files in a
classes folder in the war, I'd prefer they first be built into a jar
file, placed in the local repository for other apps to use, and then
included as a dependcy in war's web-inf/lib folder. 
 
I know I need to set up two poms (maybe three), but I don't want to
break up the current package structure if possible, and I'd like this to
be done as one build. 
 
Can someone point me in the right direction? 
 
Thanks...

Frank Russo
Senior Developer
FX Alliance, LLC

Re: Breaking up an existing webapp build

[Eric Redmond <er...@gmail.com>]

What you could do is create a pom project in the base of the WAR, which then
kicks off two modules... one as a JAR project which builds first, then the
second one builds the WAR, with everything wrapped up inside it. This would
require 3 POMs.

For example, if your directory is set up as:
BASE_WAR_DIR/java/source/files/

You can create:
BASE_WAR_DIR/pom.xml
BASE_WAR_DIR/war_pom.xml
BASE_WAR_DIR/jar_pom.xml

Or better yet, you extend the WAR plugin and branch off another build
cycle... the branched cycle would build the .class files into a jar, deploy,
and then return to the main build cycle where it would use the jar
(presumably with some derrivative name of the war).


On 12/28/05, Frank Russo <fr...@fxall.com> wrote:
>
> I currently have a standard webapp project with a working m2 build
> process. It builds a war with the typical web-inf structure as follows:
>
>         web-inf/classes/*        this is where the app's compiled
> classes go.
>         web-inf/lib/*.jar        this is where the dependency jars go.
>
> I want to alter my build so that instead of the app's class files in a
> classes folder in the war, I'd prefer they first be built into a jar
> file, placed in the local repository for other apps to use, and then
> included as a dependcy in war's web-inf/lib folder.
>
> I know I need to set up two poms (maybe three), but I don't want to
> break up the current package structure if possible, and I'd like this to
> be done as one build.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks...
>
> Frank Russo
> Senior Developer
> FX Alliance, LLC
>
>
>