Question

I’m using almost same POM for both my projects, they are on the same workspace but they are not related at all, they are related however because in both I use spring and jboss. Here is the pom :

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>com.springinaction.hello</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-in-action</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>spring-in-action</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    <properties>
        <jboss.ome>C:\jboss-5.1.0.GA\server\default\deploy</jboss.ome>
        <springversion>2.5.3</springversion>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring</artifactId>
            <version>${springversion}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.14</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <warName>spring-book</warName>
                    <outputDirectory>${jboss.ome}</outputDirectory>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

What I want to achieve with this POM is that I want to name my war when built spring-book.war and copy it to Jboss location I specified. Now in my first project this works it does exactly what I requested but in other it does not. I changed springversion and jboss home properties variable but everything remains the same, what can I do ? The project builds and all, everything is working perfectly just I don’t want to copy everytime in my jboss dir and previously remove the old war, it takes about 20sec on each source code change its a lot

Answer 1

Problem spotted at this line:

<packaging>jar</packaging>

You’re not using the right packaging, it should be:

<packaging>war</packaging>

After this change the war plugin should get called and things should work like in the other project 🙂