yuicompressor maven plugin and maven-war-plugin

Question

I\'ve been struggling with getting this plugin to play nicely with the maven-war-plugin for a couple of hours now and I thought it was time to ask for help. I have the plugi

Answer 1

The approach I use is a bit different.

First, I've configured my IDE to run mvn process-resources before the compilation/packaging. This way the files are created before the war is assembled.

It is very important to set false and ${basedir}/src/main/resources/ so the files can be created in the same directory without replacing your original source files.

 
    net.alchim31.maven
    yuicompressor-maven-plugin
    1.3.2
    
        false
        
            **/*-min.js
            **/*.min.js
            **/*-min.css
            **/*.min.css
        
        false
        false 
        ${basedir}/src/main/resources/ 
        false
    

    
        
            compress_js_css
                process-resources
            
                compress