[CACTUS-223] Allow inclusion of the project's JAR into Cactu's WAR

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7
• Component/s: Maven Integration
• Assignee: Felipe Leme
• Reporter: Felipe Leme
• Created: 28/Jul/05 21:31
• Updated: 11/Apr/08 12:41

Description

As discussed in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPWAR-30 , there are many situations when it's convenient to pack the project's JAR inside its WAR.

Besides the reasons quoted in that Maven issue, I found another one related to Cactus: I had a project where we create some Maven tasks that call cactifyear to create the EAR, unzip it on JBoss and generate the Eclipse meta files in a way that we can change the Cactus classes without redeploying it. But in order for it to work, I cannot have the projects classes on WEB-INF (neither on lib or classes), so in that case I would need:

maven.war.usesJar=true
cactus.war.includesJar=false

Anyway, independently of the outcome of MPWAR-30, we could add the cactus.war.includesJar property on Cactus.

– Felipe

Cactus in particular has another need:
In the Cactus arena, in particuar