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weekens
weekens

Reputation: 8292

Maven war plugin: archiveClasses without archiving resources

There is an archiveClasses option in maven-war-plugin, which packages all the classes in a single .jar, and then creates .war file with that jar in lib/ folder.

I need to do the same, but leave resource files in classes directory, so that they are still accessible from the classpath but easy to modify.

What is the easiest way to do that?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 4714

Answers (4)

Raja Anbazhagan
Raja Anbazhagan

Reputation: 4554

One line answer : There are no options provided in maven-war-plugin to exclude the resources from the jar created using archiveClasses flag.

The possible and easiest workaround for this problem is to move the files present under src/main/java/resources directory to src/main/java/webapp/WEB-INF/classes directory.

Upvotes: 2

Aaric
Aaric

Reputation: 1

you can do like this to solve the problem:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.4</version>
    <configuration>
        <warName>${project.war.name}</warName>
        <warSourceExcludes>**/*.class</warSourceExcludes>
        <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Upvotes: 0

Charles Hu
Charles Hu

Reputation: 662

Maybe you can try to configure your resources folder as a WebResource in the plugin configuration.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <archiveClasses>true</archiveClasses>
        <webResources>
            <resource>
                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
                <targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
                <filtering>true</filtering>
            </resource>
        </webResources>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Upvotes: 5

unscene
unscene

Reputation: 186

You should just be able to specify where those resources are. It usually looks in src/main/resources for resources, but if you need them in the java source tree you could try:

<resources>
    <resource>
        <directory>${basedir}/src/main/java</directory>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
        <includes>
            <include>*.xml</include>                
        </includes>
    </resource>
</resources>

Upvotes: 0

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