Question

We have a servlet that we post a zip file to. I would like to automate building the zip and posting it to the servlet with maven. Is there a way to do that with maven plugins or should I just use external tools or ant tasks?

Answer 1

We ended up using some ant/curl:

    <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.6</version>
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <phase>package</phase>
                <goals>
                    <goal>run</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                    <target>
                        <exec executable="curl">
                            <arg value="-F"/>
                            <arg value="file=@target/templates.zip"/>
                            <arg value="http://localhost:8080/template/process"/>
                        </exec>
                    </target>
                </configuration>
            </execution>
        </executions>
    </plugin>