Package a WAR inside an .esb folder

[rpelisse]

Hi all,

I've been trying for most of the day to have maven add a WAR at the root of my .esb project, without any succes. A quick googling lead me to use the maven-dependency-plugin, and had me half way there. I'm indeed able to add the WAR to the exploded package built in my tagert, but not in my .esb archive.

Let's first do a quick configuration overview of my pom.xml:

...

<packaging>jboss-esb</packaging>

...

  <dependencies>

    ...

    <dependency>

      <groupId>com.systematic.kombit</groupId>

      <artifactId>ws-to-esb</artifactId>

      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

      <type>war</type>

    </dependency>

   </dependencies>

...

      <!-- Packaging plugin for creating .esb artifacts -->

      <plugin>

        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

        <artifactId>jboss-packaging-maven-plugin</artifactId>

        <version>2.2</version>

        <extensions>true</extensions>

        <executions>

          <execution>

            <id>build-esb</id>

            <goals>

              <goal>esb</goal>

            </goals>

          </execution>

        </executions>

      </plugin>

...

      <plugin>

        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>

        <version>2.5.1</version>

        <executions>

          <execution>

            <id>copy</id>

            <phase>package</phase>

            <goals>

              <goal>copy</goal>

            </goals>

            <configuration>

              <artifactItems>

                <artifactItem>

                  <groupId>com.systematic.kombit</groupId>

                  <artifactId>ws-to-esb</artifactId>

                  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

                  <type>war</type>

                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</outputDirectory>

                </artifactItem>

              </artifactItems>

              <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>

            </configuration>

          </execution>

        </executions>

      </plugin>

Important note: As I'm using a newer version of the maven-dependency-plugin than the one used in the example provided in the link below, I cannot use the "prepare-package" phase (otherwise the build failed screaming that I must use the package phase). I think this the root core of my issue, as, when mvn reach 'package' phase, it is already "too late", the .esb archive has been created.

Here is the result of the mvn package execution:

$ ls -1 target/

classes

com.systematic.kombit.ws-to-esb.1.0-SNAPSHOT

com.systematic.kombit.ws-to-esb.1.0-SNAPSHOT.esb

generated-sources

maven-archiver

$ ls -1 target/com.systematic.kombit.ws-to-esb.1.0-SNAPSHOT/

com

META-INF

ws-to-esb-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war

$ unzip -t target/com.systematic.kombit.ws-to-esb.1.0-SNAPSHOT.esb

Archive:  target/com.systematic.kombit.ws-to-esb.1.0-SNAPSHOT.esb

    testing: META-INF/                OK

    testing: META-INF/MANIFEST.MF     OK

    testing: com/                     OK

    testing: com/systematic/          OK

    testing: com/systematic/kombit/   OK

    testing: META-INF/jboss-esb.xml   OK

    testing: com/systematic/kombit/MyAction.class   OK

    testing: META-INF/maven/          OK

    testing: META-INF/maven/com.systematic.kombit/   OK

    testing: META-INF/maven/com.systematic.kombit/ws-to-esb/   OK

    testing: META-INF/maven/com.systematic.kombit/ws-to-esb/pom.xml   OK

    testing: META-INF/maven/com.systematic.kombit/ws-to-esb/pom.properties   OK

No errors detected in compressed data of target/com.systematic.kombit.ws-to-esb.1.0-SNAPSHOT.esb

Any clue on how I could fix this ?

[tcunning]

I think you should be able to do this without use of the maven-dependency-plugin.      The docs for the jboss-packaging-plugin (http://mojo.codehaus.org/jboss-packaging-maven-plugin/esb-mojo.html) seem to suggest that dependencies will be added to the .esb archive unless you explicitly exclude them - maybe try adding

<dependency>

                  <groupId>com.systematic.kombit</groupId>

                  <artifactId>ws-to-esb</artifactId>

                  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

                  <type>war</type>

</dependency>

to your <dependencies/> and see if it gets picked up?     Worth a try.

If the jboss packaging plugin doesn't work out, another option would be for you to use just default JAR packaging and use the maven assembly plugin and an assembly.xml to put this all together.       You would have to rename your .jar to the .esb extension later, but that would give you the artifact contents you're looking for.

[rpelisse]

Hi Tom,

Sorry, I failed to mention, that I started by that. I just added the dependency, and nothing happened (ie - no war in my ESB package). Then, I added the dependency-plugin, based on my googling. I also just checked, I'm using the lastest release from this plugin (2.2)....

[ssadeghi]

Hi Romain,

The assembly plugin would be the way as Tom has mentioned. Here is a sample pom.xml:

<build>

<plugins>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.2</version>

<executions>

<execution>

<id>with-war</id>

<goals>

<goal>single</goal>

</goals>

<phase>package</phase>

<configuration>

<descriptors>

<descriptor>src/assembly/esb.xml</descriptor>

</descriptors>

</configuration>

</execution>

</executions>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-packaging-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.2</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</plugin>

<plugin>

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

<artifactId>jboss-packaging-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<version>2.2</version>

<extensions>true</extensions>

</plugin>

</plugins>

</build>

An the esb.xml describing the assembly looks like this:

<assembly>

<id>with-war</id>

<formats>

<format>esb</format>

</formats>

<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>

<fileSets>

<fileSet>

<directory>target/classes</directory>

<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>

</fileSet>

</fileSets>

<dependencySets>

<dependencySet>

<includes>

<include>com.jboss.sample:colorapp</include>

</includes>

<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>

</dependencySet>

</dependencySets>

</assembly>

I have attached the sample project.