[AXIS2-5784] Maven: Module 'axis2-webapp' generate "-classes.jar" during execution of maven-war-plugin

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.4
• Assignee: Andreas Veithen
• Reporter: Jeff Thomas
• Created: 10/Jun/16 11:35
• Updated: 11/Jun/16 11:15
• Resolved: 11/Jun/16 11:15

Description

I am currently using the Maven WAR overlays to generate WAR files with the content from 'axis2-webapp'.

For example:

<!-- Axis2 WebApp overlay WAR. -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
  <artifactId>axis2-webapp</artifactId>
  <version>${axis2.version}</version>
  <type>war</type>
  <scope>provided</scope>  
</dependency>
    ...
<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    ...
    <overlays>
      <overlay>
        <!-- overlay WAR 'axis2-webapp' - standard Axis2 JSPs/Servlet clasess and other stuff. -->
        <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
        <artifactId>axis2-webapp</artifactId>
        <includes>
          <include>axis2-web/**</include>
          <include>WEB-INF/classes/org/apache/axis2/**</include>
          <include>WEB-INF/include/**</include>
          <include>WEB-INF/tags/**</include>
          <include>WEB-INF/views/**</include>
        </includes>
      </overlay>
    </overlays>
    ...
  </configuration>
</plugin>

In my WARs web.xml I have also defined the AxisAdminServlet:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>AxisAdminServlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>org.apache.axis2.webapp.AxisAdminServlet</servlet-class>
  <load-on-startup>100</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

In the development environment, the AxisAdminServlet class is shown as not found (because it is only added during the build phase).

In my patched version of 'axis2-webapp' I have added the following line to the maven-war-plugin to generate a 'axis2-webapp-1.7.3-classes.jar':

<attachClasses>true</attachClasses>

Thus I can add the following dependency to my POM and resolve the missing classes (provided so that it is not added to the WAR):

<!-- Axis2 WebApp overlay WAR. -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
  <artifactId>axis2-webapp</artifactId>
  <version>${axis2.version}</version>
  <type>jar</type>
  <classifier>classes</classifier>
  <scope>provided</scope>  
</dependency>

My wish would be that the "-classes.jar" be part of the standard build so that I don't need to patch the 'axis2-webapp' POM in the future .