Question

Why is it that although I’ve

1. set the proper path to the JBoss EJB deployment descriptor in my project’s EJB facet

2. added jboss-ejb3.xml to Intellij’s artifact Patrac-web:war exploded’s <output root>/WEB-INF

that any time I make the simplest change to pom.xml Intellij removes the following entry from ${PROJECT_DIR}/.idea/artifacts/Patrac_web_war_exploded.xml:

<element id="file-copy" path="$PROJECT_DIR$/Patrac-ejb/src/main/resources/META-INF/jboss-ejb3.xml" />

and, as a result, jboss-ejb3.xml does not get copied to the target directory?

It’s as though each time I make a change to pom.xml Intellij “reloads” the deployment configuration using the POM to override what settings I make within the IDE. Perhaps because I have no entry in my pom.xml for copying jboss-ejb3.xml from source directory to target directory the settings I make in Intellij IDE keep disappearing whenever Intellij “reloads.” Pure conjecture on my part, but this is what seems to be happening.

If so, what change do I need to make to pom.xml in order to make this stop happening?

Answer 1

When a project is (re)imported from Maven IDEA configures it such way that when you invoke ‘Build’ from IDEA it produces the same result as Maven’s ‘package’ goal. If you need to copy jboss-ejb3.xml to WEB-INF just put it under ‘src/main/webapp/WEB-INF’ directory and it will be copied by Maven and so do IDEA.