Is it possible to supply Tomcat6's context.xml file via the Maven Cargo plugin?

Question

I\'d like to keep Tomcat\'s context.xml file out of my WAR file\'s META-INF directory if possible. Can this be done with Maven\'s cargo plugin? I can\'t seem to find the c

Answer 1

I haven't found a way to do this yet, but I have come up with a work around that works in my project. I currently have a project with essentially 3 submodules:

    dependencies
    webapp
    smoketest

When I'm building the "webapp" project, I execute the following plugin declaration:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-war-plugin
    
        
        create-war-smoketest
        verify
        
            war
        
        
            ${project.build.directory}/exploded
            false
            smoketest
            
            
                true
                src/test/resources/smoketest
                META-INF
                
                    context.xml
                
            
            
        
        
    

And then when I'm running my Cargo/WebTest suite in the SmokeTest project, I specify the smoketest WAR file as a dependency and in my Cargo configuration set my deployrables thusly:

    
        ${pom.groupId}
        webapp
        war
        
            smoketest
        
    

With the dependency looking something like:

    
        ${pom.groupId}
        webapp
        ${pom.version}
        smoketest
        war
        system
        
        ${basedir}/../webapp/target/webapp-${pom.version}-smoketest.war
    

It's extremely dirty, but it at least works... for now. One quick note: my comment about forcing it to never look for a version in the repo is possibly incorrect at this point; I think this trick may have been broken by a change to the dependency plugin at some point.