Creating war/ear directly from path

[Igor Semenko <Ig...@kyiv.vdiweb.com>]

Hi, all.

 

In our build file we use path definition like this:
<path id="ear.libs">

    <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">

      <include name="asm/jars/*.jar" />

    </fileset>

</path>

 

When building ear file we copy all those files into temp dir using flattenmapper:

  <copy todir="temp_libs">

    <mapper type="flatten" />

    <fileset refid="ear.libs" />

  </copy>

 

And then create ear including files from temp_lib dirs:

<ear ..>

    <fileset dir="temp_libs">

      <include name="*.jar" />

    </fileset>

</ear>

 

Is it possible to somehow skip copying jar files into temp directory and include them into ear directly based on path declared earlier?

 

Thanks.

 

Igor Semenko
Senior Java Developer
Vested Development Inc.
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Re: Creating war/ear directly from path

[Steve Loughran <st...@apache.org>]

Igor Semenko wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
>  
> 
> In our build file we use path definition like this:
> <path id="ear.libs">
> 
>     <fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
> 
>       <include name="asm/jars/*.jar" />
> 
>     </fileset>
> 
> </path>
> 
>  
> 
> When building ear file we copy all those files into temp dir using flattenmapper:
> 
>   <copy todir="temp_libs">
> 
>     <mapper type="flatten" />
> 
>     <fileset refid="ear.libs" />
> 
>   </copy>
> 
>  
> 
> And then create ear including files from temp_lib dirs:
> 
> <ear ..>
> 
>     <fileset dir="temp_libs">
> 
>       <include name="*.jar" />
> 
>     </fileset>
> 
> </ear>
> 
>  
> 
> Is it possible to somehow skip copying jar files into temp directory and include them into ear directly based on path declared earlier?

No. Its been discussed, having <lib> or other filesets do mapping 
internally. But I just copy them into a dir. Which has some benefits; if 
you are signing your jars its a place to sign them without touching the 
originals, and you can see exactly what goes in there, so catching 
copies of servlet.jar that shouldnt be there.



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