[MWAR-72] Need ability to protect (or exclude) resource from being destroyed during war overlay.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.1-alpha-1
• Assignee: Stephane Nicoll
• Reporter: Joakim Erdfelt
• Created: 24/Aug/06 11:17
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 18:37
• Resolved: 12/Aug/07 05:45

Description

If you have a template war TEMPLATE.war that is used to overlay the current project war CURRENT.war, and there are values in the CURRENT.war that should never be overlaid, a mechanism needs to exist to protect those resources.

Example:

template.war uses xwork - /WEB-INF/classes/xwork.xml
current.war also uses xwork.

when you overlay template.war onto current.war you want to prevent /WEB-INF/classes/xwork.xml from being overwritten.

desired.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <protectionFileSets>
      <protectionFileSet>
        <directory>/WEB-INF</directory>
        <includes>
          <include>classes/xwork.xml</include>
        </includes>
      </protectionFileSet>
    </protectionFileSets>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

You can use the maven-shared/file-management FileSet implementation to perform this (see maven-clean-plugin) for example usage.

Issue Links

• depends upon: MWAR-97 War plugin and Overlays handling
• is related to: MWAR-47 Regression : Files not copied when overlaying wars