I have a Spring MVC based rest api API_1. I want to create another api API_2 which will use all the same system vars of API_1. Basically I want to create a separate Spring boot rest service and add it as a dependency to API_1.
Is i possible to do this? I don't want to change packaging type from war to ear.
Only thing is I want this api separate project is because I think this feature can be used by other api's accross the project.
I was thinking if I can somehow load API_2 in API_1 after adding the dependency and some configs in web.xml or pom xml (adding some plugin)
If you don't want to create a jar out of war, you can consider maven overlays
An overlay of a WAR file, is simply a Maven project that uses another
project's WAR output as a dependency, rather than a project's JAR.
When the overlay project is built, the underlying project's WAR file
is exploded and files in the overlay project added to it. If an
overlay project has a file with the same path and name as a file in
the underlying WAR it will replace it.
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Am a beginner with netbeans IDE. I want to know that web.xml file in Netbeans hierarchy is same as that of pom.xml file in Eclipse IDE.
Where as in Eclipse, when we create a project it comes with pom.xml file. We can modify when we need to modify or to add dependencies. So, how about in Netbeans? web.xml work as similar to pom.xml
I think you got this all wrong. Please read through some materials.
web.xml - deployment descriptor
Java web applications use a deployment descriptor file to determine how URLs map to servlets, which URLs require authentication, and other information. This file is named web.xml, and resides in the app's WAR under the WEB-INF/ directory. web.xml is part of the servlet standard for web applications.
A web application's deployment descriptor describes the classes, resources and configuration of the application and how the web server uses them to serve web requests. When the web server receives a request for the application, it uses the deployment descriptor to map the URL of the request to the code that ought to handle the request.
pom.xml - project object model
A Project Object Model or POM is the fundamental unit of work in Maven. It is an XML file that contains information about the project and configuration details used by Maven to build the project. It contains default values for most projects. Examples for this is the build directory, which is target; the source directory, which is src/main/java; the test source directory, which is src/test/java; and so on.
The POM was renamed from project.xml in Maven 1 to pom.xml in Maven 2. Instead of having a maven.xml file that contains the goals that can be executed, the goals or plugins are now configured in the pom.xml. When executing a task or goal, Maven looks for the POM in the current directory. It reads the POM, gets the needed configuration information, then executes the goal.
Some of the configuration that can be specified in the POM are the project dependencies, the plugins or goals that can be executed, the build profiles, and so on. Other information such as the project version, description, developers, mailing lists and such can also be specified.
Go through the below pages.
https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/webxml
I have a very specific problem dealing with GWT. I have a web application and a jar file which contains the business logic. Inside this jar I use dozer mapper and I have the related config file inside the jar itself. The config file is under META-INF/dozer_mappings.xml. While in hosted mode it works perfectly, in web mode it has a problem. It says:
Unable to locate dozer mapping file [/META-INF/dozer_mappings.xml] in the classpath!
Actually I don't understand why it should change: if the file is not in the classpath it should not work in both the environments... Of course all my libraries are in the WEB-INF/lib folder. The one with the dozer configuration is there as well.
I want to create the persistence-tier (the Model of MVC) in a different application generating a JAR that will be imported in to the WAR (With the View and Controller of MVC)...
In both aplications (the JAR and the WAR) I want to use Spring (to manage persistence and transactions and dependency injection) and Maven (to manage de dependencies of both projects)...
I think that every Spring-Maven Application would have their own applicationContext.xml (or the WAR Application could inject dependency in the JAR Application too with only one configuration file for both projects?) and I know that each one will have their own pom.xml...
But how must proceed to integrate them? I wish that the JAR Application will be declared as dependency in the WAR Application and that Maven download the Jar automatically from the SVN respository... but I guess that this another question...
Create a simple Maven project (this will be the parent, parent-module) and in pom.xml define the common dependencies for the war-module and jar-module.
Create a new maven module, war-module, and define it as a war and a child of the parent-module. You will have here the web.xml and one applicationContext.xml.
Create a new maven module, jar-module, and define it as a jar and a child of the parent-module. You will have here another applicationContext.xml.
In the pom.xml file from war-module import jar-module as a dependency.
In the applicationContext.xml from war-module import applicationContext.xml from jar-module like here
Hope it helps.
I am using Glassfish 3.1.2 with Dojo 1.7 and would like to shorten the build process, it's taking quite a while for maven to copy the dojo js files each build. I could use the CDN version dojo but I would like to be able to debug when offline. Is there a way to tell Glassfish to use the pre-zipped dojo source file? Just to be clear, I don't want Glassfish to zip the files for me.
Can you place the desired resources in an independent WAR file, and deploy separately? You'll have a context path to the resources (diff URL) that is dependent on the new WAR file, but you'll be able to deploy it once.
If that's not satisfactory, you could alternatively write a small servlet (packaged in your normal app) to expose resources that you locate (*.getClass().getResourceStream()) from a jar file you've placed in glassfishv3/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib. This is trivial to do via a restful-ws, also some libraries (primefaces) facilitate exposing resources.
I want to place development web.xml in another folder in eclipse.
This can be done using the Deployment Assembly properties. Right click on the web project, choose Properties, and then navigate to the Deployment Assembly panel. Remove the /WebContent entry (pointing to /) and then add another entry, of type Folder. It should be rooted where you want to keep the web.xml, and mapped to /.
This technique can be extended to make Eclipse work with arbitrary build tool source layouts.
You might want to use Apache Ant
for that purpose. You may define a "conf" directory and place all you config files there, or a resource directory for the same reason.
If haven't use ant for that purpose, I strongly recommend you to do so.
Here is a sample ant build.xml for a web app Sample Build.XML
I'll use Maven myself, but since you're just beginning, Ant would be just fine.
I am using the eclipse builder and not ant.
Actually what i did was that i defined web.xml in another folder. So now I have two web.xml, one for welogic with a lot weblogic specific stuff like filters. And i have another for development which i placed in another folder, in the web project and added this folder to the deployment descriptor for tomcat in eclipse. So now when i deploy the application, the web.xml for tomcat which is in my specified folder owerwrites the web.xml present in web-INF folder(in the deployment directory).
Looks to me a nice workaround.