Maven 2.x WAR Plugin

War overlay with merged web.xml

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  • Type: Wish Wish
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: overlay
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Description

I'm looking for a way to use the war overlay feature and have the web.xml merged with the content of both the parent war and the child war.

For example, we have two wars A and B, and B is depending on A using the overlay feature. Now, I'd like all filters, servlets etc that are configured in A to be available in the resulting war, as well as all filters, servlets etc from B. If the id attributes clash, then the objects from B should be used.

Any ideas how this could be accomplished?

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Stéphane Nicoll added a comment -

We have that in mind. I can't provide any schedule though.

The idea would be to integrate the merge functionnality from the Cargo project. FYI we are currently refactoring the overlay mechansim.

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Stéphane Nicoll added a comment - We have that in mind. I can't provide any schedule though. The idea would be to integrate the merge functionnality from the Cargo project. FYI we are currently refactoring the overlay mechansim.
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Anders Romin added a comment -

That's ok for me. Thanks for a fast reply!
I'm also looking forward to the refactored overlay implementation...

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Anders Romin added a comment - That's ok for me. Thanks for a fast reply! I'm also looking forward to the refactored overlay implementation...
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Richard C. L. Li added a comment -

I am in need of this feature, any progress? I can help to implement this feature if you permitted, this should be easy though.

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Richard C. L. Li added a comment - I am in need of this feature, any progress? I can help to implement this feature if you permitted, this should be easy though.
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Stéphane Nicoll added a comment -

Howdy,

You can certainly help if you think it's easy

I guess we should rely on the cargo api and provide the bridge to this system + tests + documentation. I've investigated the solution provided with cargo and found it very complete but also a bit complex to use.

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Stéphane Nicoll added a comment - Howdy, You can certainly help if you think it's easy I guess we should rely on the cargo api and provide the bridge to this system + tests + documentation. I've investigated the solution provided with cargo and found it very complete but also a bit complex to use.
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Gabriele Columbro added a comment -

An Xpatch kind of thing is not applicable?

http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/maven-plugin/1.0/1360_1_1.html

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Gabriele Columbro added a comment - An Xpatch kind of thing is not applicable? http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/maven-plugins/maven-plugin/1.0/1360_1_1.html
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Michiel Meeuwissen added a comment -

In an ant-build I used to simply merge 2 web.xml's using an XSLT. This may not be flexible enough in every situation, but at least it would be simple to implement.

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Michiel Meeuwissen added a comment - In an ant-build I used to simply merge 2 web.xml's using an XSLT. This may not be flexible enough in every situation, but at least it would be simple to implement.
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Stéphane Nicoll added a comment -

The cactus project has a merge web.xml feature that we might consider integrating here in one way or the other.

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Stéphane Nicoll added a comment - The cactus project has a merge web.xml feature that we might consider integrating here in one way or the other.
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Knut Vidar Siem added a comment -

From the Cactus project page:

2011/08/05 - Jakarta Cactus has been retired.

I would like to see this issue resolved as well. Meanwhile, alternatives include:

This thread from StackOverflow.com could also be of interest: Maven: Customize web.xml of web-app project

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Knut Vidar Siem added a comment - From the Cactus project page : 2011/08/05 - Jakarta Cactus has been retired. I would like to see this issue resolved as well. Meanwhile, alternatives include: Cargo Maven2 Plugin - Merging WAR files XML Maven Plugin - XSL Transformation This thread from StackOverflow.com could also be of interest: Maven: Customize web.xml of web-app project
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Michael Osipov added a comment - - edited

Cocoon's Maven Plugin is, unfortunately, unusable. I was wondering why neither of my .xweb files from my project were applied. I checked the source: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/tags/cocoon-2.2/cocoon-maven-plugin/cocoon-maven-plugin-1.0.0-M2/src/main/java/org/apache/cocoon/maven/deployer/AbstractDeployMojo.java and the only call to the method xpatch passes new File[0], so nothing is applied. Only xweb files for dependencies are applied.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2084

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Michael Osipov added a comment - - edited Cocoon's Maven Plugin is, unfortunately, unusable. I was wondering why neither of my .xweb files from my project were applied. I checked the source: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/tags/cocoon-2.2/cocoon-maven-plugin/cocoon-maven-plugin-1.0.0-M2/src/main/java/org/apache/cocoon/maven/deployer/AbstractDeployMojo.java and the only call to the method xpatch passes new File [0] , so nothing is applied. Only xweb files for dependencies are applied. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-2084

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