Exploded EAR structure

[chetan mehrotra <ch...@gmail.com>]

We are in the process of converting our project from Ant based built to
Maven one. Till now we were using weblogic split directory structure for the
devlopment. As in that we do not need to make the ear/war for every little
changes. How to do this with Maven.

If split is not directly possible then can we have a exploded directory
structure.Or any other way to avoid making ear/war everytime. We also want
this option for working on JSP's . As we generally deploy from the
exploded/split directory so any changes done in the jsp are immediatly
reflected.

Any suggestion on achieving this would be helpful.

--
Chetan Mehrotra

Re: Exploded EAR structure

[chetan mehrotra <ch...@gmail.com>]

Hi Wayne,
           Thanx for the instant reply. We were looking for Maven for its
integrated report generation structure. As the support for various reporting
tools is quite impressive.

As you mentioned that we can use maven for complete web-app generation. Is
it still possible with the exploded or split directory structure.
Intermediate steps I would get done by using Ant scripts. But report
generations we wanted with Maven.

Would it be still possible with it. Say by writing any plugin.Or maintaining
such strutures with Maven is out of its scope

On 3/9/06, Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First off, Maven may not be the right tool for every person/project.
> If you already have a good build process in Ant that you're happy
> with, its not always true that you should move to Maven.
>
> In this case, I would "only" use Maven to build up a complete webapp
> when you are ready to deploy, or when your non-JSP code changes. There
> are ways to explode the WAR after packaging, I'm not using it so I
> can't tell you details. I believe the goal is war:explode... maybe
> someone else who is using exploded WARs will respond with more info??
>
> I would write an Ant script to copy the JSPs into the exploded
> directory so when your JSPs change, you can just copy them with a
> quick "ant jsp" command. There are probably ways to do this with Maven
> as well (using Antrun or perhaps Assembly) but there's no particular
> reason why you must do it in Maven, so I'd just do it in plain old Ant
> as it is simpler.
>
> Point your app server at the exploded directory and run the webapp
> from there, jsps will be automatically picked up, etc.
>
> Wayne
>
>


--
Chetan Mehrotra

Re: Exploded EAR structure

[Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>]

First off, Maven may not be the right tool for every person/project.
If you already have a good build process in Ant that you're happy
with, its not always true that you should move to Maven.

In this case, I would "only" use Maven to build up a complete webapp
when you are ready to deploy, or when your non-JSP code changes. There
are ways to explode the WAR after packaging, I'm not using it so I
can't tell you details. I believe the goal is war:explode... maybe
someone else who is using exploded WARs will respond with more info??

I would write an Ant script to copy the JSPs into the exploded
directory so when your JSPs change, you can just copy them with a
quick "ant jsp" command. There are probably ways to do this with Maven
as well (using Antrun or perhaps Assembly) but there's no particular
reason why you must do it in Maven, so I'd just do it in plain old Ant
as it is simpler.

Point your app server at the exploded directory and run the webapp
from there, jsps will be automatically picked up, etc.

Wayne


On 3/8/06, chetan mehrotra <ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are in the process of converting our project from Ant based built to
> Maven one. Till now we were using weblogic split directory structure for the
> devlopment. As in that we do not need to make the ear/war for every little
> changes. How to do this with Maven.
>
> If split is not directly possible then can we have a exploded directory
> structure.Or any other way to avoid making ear/war everytime. We also want
> this option for working on JSP's . As we generally deploy from the
> exploded/split directory so any changes done in the jsp are immediatly
> reflected.
>
> Any suggestion on achieving this would be helpful.
>
> --
> Chetan Mehrotra
>
>