Hi Thanks for the suggestion. Here's another attempt at explaining my problem:
During war:war, packaging of webapp commences. Step 1: Assemble webapp Step 2: Process Overlay (if any) Step 3: Copy webapp webResources Step 4: Copy webapp resources Step 5: webapp assembly completed Step 6: Build war *It is between step 5 and step 6 that I want to run the ant task as I want to change some custom settings in the files that are in the webapp folder.* When I run my ant task, with the phase being "package", I can accomplish my changes to the files under target/myapp-webapp folder. However, since myapp-webapp.war is built before ant task is run, these changes are not getting to be a part of that war file. Consequently, the install phase is installing the war without the changes to files in webapp folder. I read somewhere that we can control the order in which the plugins are executed within a phase! :-( Is there a way to run a command to build a war file from a webapp directory? Is there a way to rebuild the war during install phase? Any other workaround or hook to accomplishing what I need to do? Thanks On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
