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Andrea Ligios
Andrea Ligios

Reputation: 50203

Set-up a Struts2 EAR Project with Maven 3

I'm migrating from Apache Ant + Apache Ivy to Apache Maven for the lifecycle management of a new project.

I've never used Maven for official releases, so I'm a total newbie on this.

Currently I have installed and configured Maven 3 and the M2Eclipse Plugin, and I've created a new Struts2 WAR project with The Blank Convention Archetype (struts2-archetype-convention), project that I'm able to deploy to JBoss 7.

After reading tons of articles and StackOverflow answers I've figured out that the first rule of Maven is: one project, one artifact;

Then, to work with an EAR I need three projects: EAR, WAR, EJB; but this answer suggests that I need 4 projects, not three: one EAR, one WAR, one EJB, and one PARENT. I thought that the EJB would be the parent... so the first question is:

And now that I've a working Struts2 WAR, the second question is:

Creating it manually ? Generating some other ear artifact or Java-EE-webapp artifacts, and then add the dependencies ? Any example of an hypothetical POM.xml needed would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 871

Answers (1)

Andrea Ligios
Andrea Ligios

Reputation: 50203

I ended up using:

  1. JBoss Java EE 6 WebApp Archetype to generate the WebApp, composed by four projects: Parent, EAR, EJB, WAR:

    mvn archetype:generate \
        -DarchetypeArtifactId=jboss-javaee6-webapp-archetype \
        -DarchetypeGroupId=org.jboss.spec.archetypes \
        -DarchetypeVersion=7.0.2.CR2

  2. Struts2 Blank Convention Archetype to generate the WAR:

    mvn archetype:generate -B -DgroupId=com.mycompany.mysystem \
        -DartifactId=myWebApp \
        -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.struts \
        -DarchetypeArtifactId=struts2-archetype-convention \
        -DarchetypeVersion=<CURRENT_STRUTS_VERSION> \
        -DremoteRepositories=http://struts.apache.org

  3. Then I manually replaced the WAR generated by JBoss with the WAR generated by Struts2.

I guess it is the cleanest way.

Upvotes: 2

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