project layout implementation question

[Warner Onstine <sw...@warneronstine.com>]

I recently was put on to a new project and spent most of yesterday 
puzzling through this and trying to figure out the best way to do this. 
Admittedly this is more than just a project layout question, there are 
some other larger issues at play here that I would like to pose to the 
list to help figure out the best way to do this.

We have a Struts application that was written for one client. This 
application was then used for another client (copy the code, modify, 
deploy). This happened many times, then they created a base application 
which could then be used as the "skeleton" app and created a client 
directories for only the files that needed to get modified. I now have 
the dubious honor of creating a new client and have been trying to 
mavenize it from the old ant build which contains many targets that are 
common to all client projects (ie - these would make great plugins).

Now I'm struggling with how to best incorporate the master skeleton 
files into this client project. Here is what I came up with, but would 
love feedback from others.

Option 1: One thing to do would be to copy the files from the skeleton 
in a pre-compile goal so that they get built along with the changed 
files. I would also need to do the same with the webapp files.

Option 2: Create a build for the master project that builds everything 
into a jar file and make a dependency on it. I would still have to copy 
the webapp files down to the client when building the war. And I also 
don't know if any "core" java files get modified in the client (they 
shouldn't, it should be an inheritance thing, but again I don't know).

That's about all I came up with, without rearchitecting the whole 
application at this time (which it undoubtedly needs, but I can't 
afford that time right now, hopefully in the near future I can examine 
this possibility further).

Hoping to hear some good suggestions.

-warner


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