gwt maven war plugin configuration problem
I am developing a gwt application in maven. In this I am using maven war plugin. Everything works fine. When I give mvn install command it builds abc.war file in target folder. But it is not copying compiled javascript files ("module1" and "module2" directories present in target) to war directory. I want to get newly compiled javascript files in war directory. How to achieve this?
pom.xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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>example</groupId>
<artifactId>example</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>12</version>
<name>gwt-maven-archetype-project</name>
<properties>
<!-- convenience to define GWT version in one place -->
<gwt.version>2.1.0</gwt.version>
<noServer>false</noServer>
<skipTest>true</skipTest>
<gwt.localWorkers>1</gwt.localWorkers>
<JAVA_HOME>C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22</JAVA_HOME>
<!-- convenience to define Spring version in one place -->
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Required dependencies-->
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>abc</finalName>
<outputDirectory>war/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<verbose>true</verbose>
<executable>${JAVA_HOME}\bin\java.exe</executable>
<compilerVersion>1.6</compilerVersion>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>generateAsync</goal>
<goal>mergewebxml</goal>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<servicePattern>**/client/**/*Service.java</servicePattern>
<noServer>${noServer}</noServer>
<noserver>${noServer}</noserver>
<modules>
<module>com.abc.example.Module1</module>
<module>com.abc.example.Module2</module>
</modules>
<runTarget>com.abc.example.Module1/module1.jsp</runTarget>
<port>8080</port>
<extraJvmArgs>-Xmx1024m -Xms1024m -Xss1024k -Dgwt.jjs.permutationWorkerFactory=com.google.gwt.dev.ThreadedPermutationWorkerFactory</extraJvmArgs>
<hostedWebapp>war</hostedWebapp>
<warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/war</warSourceDirectory>
<webXml>${basedir}/war/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-classes</phase>
<configuration>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1-beta-1</version>
<configuration>
<warSourceDirectory>${basedir}/war</warSourceDirectory>
<webXml>${basedir}/war/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
<!--<webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>-->
<containerConfigXML>war/WEB-INF/classes/context/context.xml</containerConfigXML>
<warSourceExcludes>.gwt-tmp/**</warSourceExcludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>clean</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.2</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>-Xmx1024m</argLine>
<skipTests>${skipTest}</skipTests>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<filesets>
<fileset>
<directory>war/module1</directory>
</fileset>
<fileset>
<directory>war/module2</directory>
</fileset>
<fileset>
<directory>war/WEB-INF/lib</directory>
</fileset>
</filesets>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/public/resources/**</exclude>
<exclude>**/public/images/**</exclude>
</excludes>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<filters>
<filter>src/main/resources/build/build-${env}.properties</filter>
</filters>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<id>dev</id>
<properties>
<env>dev</env>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>
Answer
While I am unfamiliar with gwt based application using maven, maven war plugin allows adding of external web resources. You could add something similar to the below in the section of maven-war-plugin.
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
<targetPath>war</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>module1/**</include>
<include>module2/**</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>