Maven eXtra Tools plugin

News

• August 18, 2006 1.0-SNAPSHOT release.

This is a Maven2 plugin to make simple development and deployment of webapplications within Eclipse IDE.

The starting point

To debug web applications within Eclipse IDE usually you need to copy "by hand" resources like dependency libraries, jsp pages and other resource types into webapplication folders.

This plugin

Allow you manage task to manage resources of web application folder (WEB-INF/lib) with 3 simple Maven commands

• copydeployables: copy deployables file into WEB-INF/lib
• cleandeployables: clean deployables files WEB-INF/lib
• updatelibs: update deployables libraries into WEB-INF/lib

Requirements

• Maven version 2.1-SNAPSHOT. Get it at Maven web site.

Declaration

Simply add xtools-maven-plugin to your plugins list of Maven2 Project Object Model in this way:

<plugin>
 <groupId>it.activemind</groupId>
 <artifactId>xtools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 <configuration>
  <webappDir>
        ${project.basedir}/src/webapp/
  </webappDir>
  <deployablesDir>
        ${project.basedir}/your-deployables-path-here/
  </deployablesDir>
 </configuration>
</plugin>