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Copying resources to JBoss with Maven (and Antrun)

On my previous post I explained how painful it was to copy resources (files, librairies…) with Maven and the maven-resources-plugin. And guess what ? I received 2 emails from Maven lovers telling me that for this kind of task, Antrun would be more appropriate. So I thought I should give it a try to be fully honest with me, Maven, and God (you need a bit of faith when Maven is involved). So, keeping the same approach as explained on my previous post (use of a Maven profile, copying one datasource and one jar file…), here is what the pom.xml would look like with Antrun :

[sourcecode language=”xml”]
</project>
…
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>Init</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<executions>

<execution>
<phase>install</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<copy file="src/main/resources/lwr-ds.xml"
todir="${env.JBOSS_HOME}/server/default/deploy" />
<copy file="${settings.localRepository}/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.6/mysql-connector-java-5.1.6.jar"
todir="${env.JBOSS_HOME}/server/default/lib" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>

</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
[/sourcecode]

Ok, it’s only 28 lines of XML. Compare with the 52 on the previous post, it’s a shorter pom.xml. But I still find that incredibly verbose just to copy two files.

If you are around next week in Paris, Zenika and Skills Matter are organising a presentation of Gradle by Hans Dockter. I’ll be there !

3 thoughts on “Copying resources to JBoss with Maven (and Antrun)”

  1. With buildr:

    task ‘install’ => ‘jboss’ do
    cp _(‘src/main/resources/lwr-ds.xml’), JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib
    cp repositories.locate(MYSQL), JBOSS_HOME/server/default/lib
    end

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  3. The complete example with Gradle

    usePlugin 'java'

def env=System.getenv()

repositories{
 mavenCentral()
}

configurations{
 drivers{
  description ='Container for dirver connector'
  transitive = false
 }
}

dependencies{
 drivers "mysql:mysql-connector-java:3.0.10"
}

libs < 
    ant.copy(file: file, todir: env['JBOSS_HOME']+"/server/default/lib")
  }
}
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