Oh, no, you misunderstood my intention. You don't build a war file using the two other wars as a dependency. The only reason you make them dependencies is to make them available to the plugin for deployment. Your third project doesn't really have its own artifact, other than the *.pom file.
nagl wrote: > by declaring the two war files as dependencies in the third project, after i > build the third project as a war and deploy it, I am not able to access the > first two web apps. > what i want to knw is a way to sort of merge the two wars. > now maven cargo plugin as something called uber war which does the job of > merging. but it is quite complicated and there is very little documentation > on it. > > > > dchicks wrote: > >> The first question is relatively straightforward. Since your wars are >> created in different projects, just set up a third project that has the >> artifact WAR files from the other two as dependencies. If your war files >> are generated in different modules of the same project, you would >> accomplish the same thing using a third module that depends on the other >> two. Think of it like you would an assembly, in that case. >> >> Looking at the Tomcat plugin, I don't see any configuration for >> deploying multiple wars at the same time. Your third project could have >> multiple modules - one for each deployment. >> >> Hopefully, someone has a better answer than that. That seems a bit like >> overkill. >> >> Dave >> >> >> nagl wrote: >> >>> So I have two wars which I deploy in tow maven projects using tomcat >>> plugin. >>> I want to do this in one step and be able to deploy more than one wars in >>> a >>> single maven project. how can i do this. any suggestions >>> >>> if tomcat plugin doesnt work, is there anyother way this can be done? >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
