maven, jsp files in dependency

Question

Hi

I'm using maven2 for dependency management. I have one project that contains some java files and some jsp files and another project, a web project, that depends on the first project. How do I access the jsp files from the web project? I can see that the jsp files are added to 1-0-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar and not 1-0-SNAPSHOT.jar ( which is added as a dependency in the web projects pom.xml) ... Any suggestions would be appreciated..

Answer 1

Hi

I think the correct Maven-way to do it would be to put the JSP files in your web project under /src/main/webapp. If that for some reason is not possible, you could use the Maven Dependency Plugin to copy the needed files into your webapp. Or, if you have a WAR project anyway, you could use an Overlay to copy the JSP-Files. The second option (which I'd recommend), would look something like this:

    <build>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <overlays>
              <overlay>
                <groupId>myGroupId</groupId>
                <artifactId>myArtifactId</artifactId>
                <type>jar</type>
                <includes>
                  <include>**/*.jsp</include>
                </includes>
                <targetPath>WEB-INF/pages</targetPath>
              </overlay>
            </overlays>
          </configuration>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </build>

Answer 2

The problem with that solution is that when developping with Eclipse, the project doesn't handle the overlay ... so the jsp are not accessible ...