[MWAR-260] Patch to provide new war-overlay type

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.1
• Component/s: overlay
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alex Clarke
• Created: 14/Sep/11 05:05
• Updated: 18/Dec/19 12:25

Description

There are a number of bugs raised around support for WAR overlays:
MWAR-73 - war overlay mechanism does not work for classes
MWAR-253 - Inherit dependencies from a WAR type dependency when it is overlayed.
MWAR-194 - Warn when inconsistent jar versions are detected during overlay
MWAR-220 - dependencyManagement && overlay + transitive dependency = multiple versions of same dependency in WEB-INF/lib
MWAR-33 - jars with differents versions can be in WEB-INF/lib with war as dependencies
MWAR-360 - Overlay: ignore WAR which is transitively dependent over JAR

Most of these relate to the fact that overlays are not treated as normal maven dependencies.

The code in https://github.com/SciSysUK/maven-plugins/tree/waroverlay introduces a new packaging type of "war-overlay", that works in the following way:

• The primary artifact is a jar containing the classes from the overlay
• Another artifact is attached containing the web content
• A dependency on a war-overlay will automatically pull both artifacts into the packaged war

To use the new type all you need to do is declare <extensions>true</extensions> on the maven-war-plugin. There is an integration test example here: https://github.com/SciSysUK/maven-plugins/tree/waroverlay/maven-war-plugin/src/it/war-overlay.

If someone could review the code I could create a patch and update the site documentation.