[MWAR-73] war overlay mechanism does not work for classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1-beta-1
• Component/s: overlay
• Environment: all OS, all JDK, currently using jdk1.4.2_10 and jdk1.5.0_06 under linux fedora core 5/x86_64 and sunOS5.10/Sparc64
• Assignee: Mark Struberg
• Reporter: Mark Struberg
• Created: 27/Aug/06 08:08
• Updated: 25/Nov/14 15:38
• Resolved: 25/Nov/14 15:38

Description

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
When building a WAR (e.g. war2.war) which depends on another WAR (e.g. war1.war), the web-resources from the dependant war are beeing used as base for overlaying.

This mechanism doesn't currently work for the classes within the dependant war, altough it is specified by the plugin documentation
See the SampleActionDependency.class in http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war-overlay.html

APPLIED PATCH:
I have written two simple war examples war1 and war2 and extended the maven-war-plugin by an own WarClasspathMojo which is bound to the phase generate-resources to fix this issue.

Since i found no way to add non-artifact parts to the classpath, i simply unpack all dependant war files (reusing the functions already there in AbstractWarMojo) and add a resource-path to the $explodedWarDir/WEB-INF/classes for each of them. The

The implementation fits all my needs, but if you provide me with a hint how it may be improved, then let me know.

KNOWN ISSUES:
This mechanism currently doesn't work if you have specified to generate an archive for the dependant war's classes.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: MWAR-66 No control over war overlay order
• is related to: MWAR-131 Ability to deploy the content of WEB-INF/classes as a classified artifact