OK. There are different ways to solve this I think. Please understand that the steps below are written theoretically, I haven't actually tried them. I leave that for you to do and report back to the community. :-)
Solution 1: 1. Create a new folder where you put the files you want to be processed. 2. Bind the antrun plugin to a suitable phase and configure it to process the files. The processed files should be placed in some folder in target/ (the build dir). 3. Configure the war plugin (war:war) to include this folder (target/xxx) as a webResource. You can see how to do this here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/adding-filtering-webresources.html Solution 2: 1. Bind the antrun plugin to a suitable phase and configure it to process the files in the src\main\webapp folder you want to process. Either place the processed files in the correct folder structure under target/ (the build dir) so that they end up correctly in the war file, or put the in a new/separate output folder under target/. The latter will force you to configure the war plugin according to step 3 in solution 1. 2. Configure the war plugin to exclude the files that you process through the antrun plguin. Examples of this are found here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/adding-filtering-webresources.html I'd say that solution 1 is the more robust solution. Solution 2 is cleaner folder wise, but more error prune. Hope it helps, /Anders PS. If you really need special processing you might want to consider writing a real maven plugin for that, instead of using the antrun plugin. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:56, S5 <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to run an ant plugin here to process some custom strings in > the > resource files. Maven's filtering won't work for our case. > > Thanks > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think it will be easier for us to help you if you tell us what kind of > > processing you want to do. > > > > You cannot insert a process step within the war plugin execution of the > war > > goal (which is what you say in your log output). TO do that you need to > > adapt the plugin itself. However, the war plugin supports filtering (a > type > > of processing) and you can also have several web resources. Depending on > > what you want to do one of these possibilities could be your solution, > > possibly together with some other plugin (doing the processing). > > > > /Anders > > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:58, S5 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I am using Maven 2.2.1 > > > > > > In my project I want to process some of the resource files. This needs > to > > > happen after "copying webapp resources" step and before "building war" > > > step. > > > > > > Here's the log: > > > > > > [war:war {execution: default-war}] > > > [INFO] Packaging webapp > > > [INFO] Assembling webapp[myapp] in [**\target\myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT] > > > [INFO] Processing war project > > > [INFO] Copying webapp resources[myapp\src\main\webapp] > > > ============> Need to process my resources here > > > [INFO] Building war: myapp\target\myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war > > > > > > Is there a way to accomplish this? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > >
