[ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-72?page=comments#action_76581 ] David Hay commented on MWAR-72: -------------------------------
We won't be upgrading to newer versions of the war plugin until this issue is fixed. We have a base war file that we override selected elements from in dependent projects. I don't see how the lastModifiedTime would *ever* be the right solution in this case. It seems to me that the current project should always win, unless configured otherwise. I would suggest raising the priority of this defect to "Blocker" as the war overlay functionality is currently unusable. > Need ability to protect (or exclude) resource from being destroyed during war > overlay. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MWAR-72 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MWAR-72 > Project: Maven 2.x War Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.0.1 > Reporter: Joakim Erdfelt > > If you have a template war TEMPLATE.war that is used to overlay the current > project war CURRENT.war, and there are values in the CURRENT.war that should > never be overlaid, a mechanism needs to exist to protect those resources. > Example: > template.war uses xwork - /WEB-INF/classes/xwork.xml > current.war also uses xwork. > when you overlay template.war onto current.war you want to prevent > /WEB-INF/classes/xwork.xml from being overwritten. > desired. > {noformat} > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> > <configuration> > <protectionFileSets> > <protectionFileSet> > <directory>/WEB-INF</directory> > <includes> > <include>classes/xwork.xml</include> > </includes> > </protectionFileSet> > </protectionFileSets> > </configuration> > </plugin> > {noformat} > You can use the maven-shared/file-management FileSet implementation to > perform this (see maven-clean-plugin) for example usage. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
