I'm using IntelliJ + Maven to generate war files.
The war is always generated in ProjectDirectory/target/projectname-version.war
After the build process is done, I want to copy the generated war file into a different location (something like cp output X:/remote/tomcat_webapps/projectname.war).
I already tried to configure the directory where maven builds the project (within the pom.xml). However, maven always deletes the containing folder and all its contents, so that is not an option.
How can I automatically copy the generated war file into a different location?
you can modify the maven war plugin in your pom.xml
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>X:/remote/tomcat_webapps</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
I'm not quite sure, if it is the outputDirectory or should it be webappDirectory, like in the documentation
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/usage.html
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Like the question GeoLite2 database gets corrupt when added to jar, I got the error from the WAR file with the following steps:
mvn package to copy GeoLite2-City.mmdb from src/main/resources/GeoLite2-City.mmdb to war file under WEB-INF/classes/GeoLite2-City.mmdb
GeoLite2-City.mmdb was changed in the first step mvn package
I tried the plugin maven-resources-plugin as https://stackoverflow.com/a/34454312/1086907, but GeoLite2-City.mmdb is still changed by mvn package
How to troubleshoot the issue?
The maven-war-plugin can actually also filter that file.
Just like for the maven-resources-plugin, you can add that mmdb file extension as an additional extension not to be filtered:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0</version>
<configuration>
<nonFilteredFileExtensions>
<nonFilteredFileExtension>mmdb</nonFilteredFileExtension>
</nonFilteredFileExtensions>
</configuration>
</plugin>
In my project i'm using Sigar library that require some native library. I would like to include all the files (.ddl, .so etc - that are platform specific) inside the JAR or, in the same directory where the jar will be run.
Sigar search those library in the java.library path, but i cant include all of them in the system PATH (my application will be executed in some production machines, and i can't touch the PATH).
In order to do this, i've this build phase in my pom.xml
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<forkMode>once</forkMode>
<workingDirectory>target</workingDirectory>
<argLine>-Djava.library.path=${baseDir}/src/main/resources/lib</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
When i run the pack goal (that is included in spring-boot-maven-plugin) and i run the jar (with java -jar myJar.jar) i got this error:
Unable to open nested entry 'lib/libsigar-amd64-freebsd-6.so'. It has
been compressed and nested jar files must be stored without
compression. Please check the mechanism used to create your executable
jar file
Someone can tell me how i can build this JAR ? I've just used spring-boot-maven-plugin because is included in Spring Boot Starter project.
I have a maven java web project and it build fine, and I have another website project (pure HTML/Javascript) which is outside the maven web project.
The directory structure is like:
project
|--backend
|--|--src
|--|--|--main
|--|--|--|--java
|--|--|--|--webapp
|--|--pom.xml
|--frontend
|--|--test
|--|--app
What I want to achieve is during the build in maven, copy the frontend/app directory into the webapp directory, before the WAR file is produced. How can I do that in maven?
Actually the maven war plugin support this directly.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<resource>
<!-- this is relative to the pom.xml directory -->
<directory>../website</directory>
<include>app/**/*</include>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
use a maven plugin such as maven resource plugin
I have a Maven assembly script that copies resources to build our app. I need to copy some war files from separate, external projects into a /webapps directory in the output. Can't seem to find the magic commands to do it.
I tried adding a dependencySet to the assembly with <include com.mygroup:mywarfile>. This works if I add 'mywarfile' as a war dependency in the project with a scope of compile or runtime. Unfortunately, my project produces a war, and the maven-war-plugin includes the external mywarfile as an overlay, which I don't want.
If I set the scope of the external war dependency to provided or test, the assembly fails with the warning:
[WARNING] The following patterns were never triggered in this artifact inclusion filter:
'com.mygroup:mywarfile'
All I want to do is have the assembly copy an artifact from my local repo to the assembly output. How to do it without messing up other parts of the project?
The maven-assembly-plugin is not intended for copying. The better way to copy dependencies is the maven-dependency-plugin which can copy dependencies etc. If you a talking about deployment into Tomcat etc. than you should take a deeper look into carg2-maven-plugin or the tomcat-maven-plugin which seemed to be more appropriate for that task.
I haven't tried this, but you could try using the exclude feature of overlay configuration of maven war plugin to exclude contents of the dependant war file from being included in your war project. Modified snippet from the Overlay documentation,
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<overlays>
<overlay>
<groupId>com.example.projects</groupId>
<artifactId>warToBeExcluded</artifactId>
<excludes>
<exclude>*</exclude>
</excludes>
</overlay>
</overlays>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
...
In my code I have set to create some files in ./ directory, because when the software will be deployed in the installation machine, all the configuration files will be created in ./ if it's the first run
Unfortunately when I build the project, and Maven executes tests, all the files are created in the project directory.
I want those files to be created in target/test-run/
How can I do it?
Thanks
If you are using the surefire plugin to execute tests (which is the default), then you can set working directory like this:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7.2</version>
<configuration>
<workingDirectory>${java.io.tmpdir}</workingDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Reference: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html
To set to the specific directory in the question:
<workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}/test-run</workingDirectory>