I have inherited a webapp built using NetBean's internal ant.
All jsps reside in:
WEB-INF/jsp
And the web.xml has hardcoded links to /WEB-INF/jsp/somefile.jsp
How can I use the maven war plugin to place the JSP there, maintaining consistency with the current structure ?
My pom currently reads:
<warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/web/WEB-INF</warSourceDirectory>
What the problem? Let's look at a standard war project structure:
$ mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \ > -DartifactId=my-webapp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp ... $ tree my-webapp/ my-webapp/ |-- pom.xml `-- src `-- main |-- resources `-- webapp |-- WEB-INF | `-- web.xml `-- index.jsp 5 directories, 3 files
No need to configure anything, just put your JSPs under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp
and there you go.
EDIT: I don't understand why you have the following line in your maven-war-plugin configuration:
<warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/web/WEB-INF</warSourceDirectory>
What is the expected behavior? Why don't you use the default value ${basedir}/src/main/webapp
?
Also note that everything in src/main/resources will be "on the classpath", i.e., it all is copied to my-webapp/WEB-INF/classes when the war is built. So that's a good place to put your configuration files, for example, log4j.xml / logback.xml, or Spring's applicationContext.xml and Spring's other config files, which you can then easily reference with classpath:somefile.xml.
What also makes this very nice is you can set up filters in maven so that it transforms the files from src/resources before it puts them in the war file.
So if you have any config files, other than web.xml, in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF, think about moving them to the src/main/resources directory.
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