On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:16 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
Hi Joshua,
On 23/04/2008, at 12:56 AM, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote:
Have you tried, or has anyone suggested using the system scope?
I had thought about it, but, unless I'm mistaken, that assumes that
the jar will be found in that location at runtime/deployment also
(which it won't).
Well, as far as I understand, using the system scope tells Maven not
to do anything with it at release time, so putting the library in your
release bundle, jar, or whatever, and on the classpath would be your
responsiblity.
We get around that by using a custom assembly definition and a custom
shell script to start our application which puts anything in our libs
directory (in our deployed installation) on the classpath.
On the other hand, what we've done internally is created an inhouse
Maven repository with Artifactory, and we uploaded our third party
jars to the internal 3rd party jar repository (things like JIDE
that aren't externally redistributable)
I think you mentioned that solution isn't available to you.
I might be able to make it happen... we'll see.
The part I'm needing help with now is creating the final assembly/
bundle.
Specifically I need to do the following:
- filter a text file (replacing certain properties) +
Well, we do this:
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
and then we have a version.properties file that looks like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/$ cat src/main/resources/pkg/spec/
version.properties
application.repository.version=${buildNumber}
application.releasenumber=${project.version}
application.customer=${customer}
application.repository.url=${project.scm.connection}
Those properties are supplied by Maven. I believe you can refer to
anything in the <properties> block in this fashion as well.
- append to the text file a list of the jars bundled (prefixing each
with a custom path).
That's a tricky one. I'd have to say start with the dependency or
assembly plugin and see if they can do what you need. I know one of
the plugins can put the jars on your classpath in the Manifest, but we
don't use the manifest, so I have no experience with it.
-Josh
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Joshua ChaitinPollak | Software Engineer
Kiva Systems, Inc., 225 Wildwood Ave, Woburn, MA 01970
