How to add context file from Wildfly to JHipster - wildfly

Question

The context root file from Wildfly AS looks like this (it must be put in a file name jboss-web.xml as explained here :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web>
<context-root>my-context</context-root>
</jboss-web>
This file and its content have to be copied into the WEB-INF folder of the WAR file.
Of course I can manually add this file after the build and it works.
But is there a way to do it automatically ? Is there in JHipster any folder that copies its content to the WEB-INF folder ?
(Could be great to add such container specific files)

Answer 1

You can put the file in /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF and it will work.
This goes against our goal of an "XML free" configuration, but that's how Wildfly works... BTW I am not sure you can get Spring working on Wildfly, with its broken classloader.

Answer 2

If you are using gradle, after copying yours files into /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ you have to add webInf { from 'src/additionalWebInf' } // to add a file-set to the WEB-INF dir. on the file gradle/war.gradle
the file will look like this
apply plugin: "war"
bootWar {
mainClassName = "com.mycompani.JhtestApp"
includes = ["WEB-INF/**", "META-INF/**"]
webInf { from 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/' } // this copy all files under this location
//webInf { from 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml' } //this copy this single file
}
war {
webAppDirName = "build/resources/main/static/"
enabled = true
archiveExtension = "war.original"
includes = ["WEB-INF/**", "META-INF/**"]
webInf { from 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/' } // this copy all files under this location
//webInf { from 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml' } //this copy this single file
}
I hope it is useful for you. for more help visit
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/war_plugin.html