Maven String Replace of Text Web Resources

Question

I have a Maven web application with text files in

src/main/webapp/textfilesdir

As I understand it, during the package phase this te

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I was fiddling a lot with this issue, so I will answer although this question is pretty old. As stated by leandro and Phil, one can use the maven-replacer-plugin. But their solution didn't work for me. Enabling useCache caused an error which made it impossible to build the project. Additionally, I can't make the auto-clean thing to work properly. As I am not allowed yet to comment on the post, I will provide my full solution here:

First of all, configure the maven-replacer-plugin:

 
  com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin
  maven-replacer-plugin
  1.3.7
  
    
      prepare-package
      
        replace
      
    
  
  
    
      target/${project.build.finalName}/static/**/*.css
    
    false
    someString
    replaceString
  

Before the actual war is built, we create an exploded war. This means, the whole content of the war file is stored in a sub directory (which is target/${project.build.finalName} by default). After that, the maven-replacer-plugin will change the contents of the files as we have specified. Finally, the .war will be packed in the package phase by the default-war job. To avoid the content of the exploded war folder being overridden, one has to set warSourceDirectory to the directory where the exploded war stuff is stored. The following configuration snippet will do this job:

  maven-war-plugin
  2.1.1
  
    
      prepare
      prepare-package
      
        exploded
  
    
     
      default-war
      package
      
        war
      
      
        ${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}
      
    
  

The package with the replaced content can be built using mvn clean package