[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (MWAR-244) Provide a mechanism for not including or having an empty webapp directory

["Stephane Nicoll (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Stephane Nicoll edited comment on MWAR-244 at 12/7/10 1:44 AM:
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I don't think adding a "empty webResource element remove the crap from a parent pom" brings any value. I agree it might be useful in your case but this has no valid semantic. Just fix your parent pom. After all, if the parent states that some resources must be copied from directory foo (whatever the config is) then it means it's a corporate standard. If not, well the pom is wrong.

      was (Author: sni):
    I don't think adding a "empty webResource element equals remove the crap from a parent pom". I agree it might be useful in your case but this has no valid semantic. Just fix your parent pom. After all, if the parent states that some resources must be copied from directory foo (whatever the config is) then it means it's a corporate standard. If not, well the pom is wrong.
  
> Provide a mechanism for not including or having an empty webapp directory
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>
>                 Key: MWAR-244
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-244
>             Project: Maven 2.x WAR Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.1.1
>            Reporter: Mike Calmus
>            Priority: Minor
>
> If the configured (or default) webapp directory does not exist, the plugin throws an IllegalArgumentException saying the directory does not exist. There should be a way to proceed without having to create an empty directory.
> [INFO] Trace
> java.lang.IllegalStateException: basedir D:\mydir\src\main\webapp does not exist
>         at org.codehaus.plexus.util.DirectoryScanner.scan(DirectoryScanner.java:290)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.packaging.WarProjectPackagingTask.getFilesToCopy(WarProjectPackagingTask.java:373)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.packaging.WarProjectPackagingTask.copyResources(WarProjectPackagingTask.java:317)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.packaging.WarProjectPackagingTask.handleWebResources(WarProjectPackagingTask.java:135)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.packaging.WarProjectPackagingTask.performPackaging(WarProjectPackagingTask.java:91)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.AbstractWarMojo.buildWebapp(AbstractWarMojo.java:472)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.AbstractWarMojo.buildExplodedWebapp(AbstractWarMojo.java:404)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.performPackaging(WarMojo.java:197)
>         at org.apache.maven.plugin.war.WarMojo.execute(WarMojo.java:159)
>         ...

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