web.xml, war plugin, much head banging

[Chris Butler <cb...@mateso.com>]

Heya folks,

Got a bothersome issue.  I get xdoclet:webdoclet to nicely build me a
web.xml from my struts components and maven is happy to move it
around...  however, when I go to use a "war" related goal, the web.xml
is not copied from the file specified in my ${maven.war.webxml}
variable...

My hunch is that (pre-Ant task) web.xml to (post-war task) web.xml is
the problem.  XDoclet automatically creates the web.xml file, so I don't
think I can rename it...  or I could rename it in a preGoal somehow
sandwiches post-xdoclet:webdoclet goal call...

Ideas?  I've been banging away on this for some time.

What I do know:
- the war-plugin does exclude "WEB-INF/web.xml" from it file roundup for
the war.
- xdoclet:webdoclet does create a file named "web.xml" with my struts
blurbs correctly placed in it.

Thnx.
C