Javascript and CSS files combining in Maven build WITHOUT compression, minification etc

Question

Is there an Maven plugin that just combines js and css resources but doesn\'t do any minification, obsucation, compressing etc? Just simple resources concatenation.

Answer 1

Make the following changes to your project:

1. In your pom.xml, tag, place:

   
   
       ro.isdc.wro4j
       wro4j-core
   
   

2. In your pom.xml, tag, place:

   
       ro.isdc.wro4j
       wro4j-maven-plugin
       1.4.3
       
           
               process-resources
               
                   run
               
           
       
       
           allDev
           ${basedir}/src/main/webapp/
           ${basedir}/src/main/webapp/
       
   
   

3. In your pom.xml (or the parent pom.xml) tag, place:

   
   
       ro.isdc.wro4j
       wro4j-core
       1.8.0
   
   

4. Create a wro.xml under /project/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF and place something like the following:

   
     
         
           /my1stJsFolder/*.js
           /my2ndJsFolder/*.js
           /someFileDirectlyUnderWEBINF.js
       
     
   

5. In web.xml insert:

   
       WebResourceOptimizer
       ro.isdc.wro.http.WroFilter
   
   
       WebResourceOptimizer
       /wro/*
   
   

allDev.js will be generated under /project/src/main/webapp.

I am not sure yet how I could tell wro4j to only generate one in target (now you have two - one in the project source files and one in target).

When compressing with yui plugin I only get one in target. But this should not be that big of a problem for you.

For more:

• https://code.google.com/p/wro4j/wiki/GettingStarted
• https://code.google.com/p/wro4j/wiki/MavenPlugin
• http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/search?search_type=project&project=wro4j-maven-plugin

ADDITIONALLY:

If you have any problems with the resource processing try adding to tag:

    
        src/main/resources
        true
    

And also to add

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-resources-plugin
    
        
            pdf
            swf
            jpg
            jpeg
            class
            jks
            exe
            wmv
            jar
            zip
            gz