Re: [Tikal-development] How to make a common web project between many other web projects in Maven -> derived war

[Adi B. <ad...@ti...>]

Great info... (really helps)
Thanks

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:04 +0200, Ronen Naor wrote:
> If you have several web projects in Maven 2, and all of them use a g
> group of identical JSP pages, you can use the derived war concept to
> solve the problem.
> 
> The idea is very simple, instead of writing in your POM, a dependency
> to a JAR, like you usually write, you write a dependency to your
> shared common WAR.
> 
> For example: 
> 
> <dependency>
> 
>       <groupId>my-company</groupId>
> 
>       <artifactId>common-web</artifactId>
> 
>       <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>        
> 
>       <type>war</type>
> 
> </dependency>  
> 
> The common war will be overlaid on the target project war. 
> 
> In case you need to exclude files from the common war, you can add
> exclusion instruction to your POM, for example:
> 
>             <plugins>
> 
>                         <plugin>
> 
> 
> <artifactId>tikal-maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
> 
> 
> <groupId>com.tikal.maven.plugins</groupId>
> 
>                                                 <configuration>
> 
> 
> <dependentWarExcludes>**/*</dependentWarExcludes>
>                                                 
> 
>                                                 </configuration>
> 
>                         </plugin>
> 
>             </plugins>
> 
>                         
> 
>