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

You can use maven-replacer-plugin:

       com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin
       maven-replacer-plugin
       1.3.7
       
           
               prepare-package
               
                   replace
                                  
           
       
       
           target/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-IN/site.xml
           
               
                   ear.version
                   ${ear.version}-${maven.build.timestamp}
                        
           
       
   

But you need two more tricks. One is adding the explode goal to the war plugin:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-war-plugin
    2.1.1
        .....
        
        
        prepare-package
            
                 exploded
             
         
    

And finally to need to call mvn clean before the package. You can do it from your pom:

                   
                    maven-clean-plugin
                    2.4.1
                    
                      
                        auto-clean
                        initialize
                        
                          clean
                        
                      
                    
            

If you are using a version of the maven-war-plugin newer than 2.0.1, you will need to include true in the configuration of the maven-war-plugin, otherwise the changes to your file(s) will be splotted when the war plugin copies your webapp over a second time. If you are using Hudson/Jenkins, you will have to use a version newer than 2.0.1.