AW: Maintaing local customizations via Maven2

[Harry Ng]

Hi all,

I have currently created a page on wiki, which we can put the suggestions on
this topic. Please help to document what you did and what problems you
tackled in using Maven 2 for your local customizations.

Thanks and Regards,
Harry


BigEHokie wrote:
> 
> On 9/27/07, Eric Miles <eric.miles at ...> wrote:
> 
>     I'm assuming when you're talking about declaring the original cas
> webapp
>     as a dependency you are talking about doing a maven2 web application
>     overlay, correct?  If so, I HIGHLY second this notion.
> 
>     However, if you are not...
> 
>     I HIGHLY recommend it :)  Doing webapp overlays with Maven2 makes
>     extending and customizing web applications SUPER easy.  The only
> problem
>     I see with the CAS in its current form is the fact that Maven2 will
> not
>     install the cas.war file into the local repository due to naming.  I
>     think it has to be named in an artifactId-version.type fashion.  You
> can
>     get around this by installing it manually with
>     install:install-file....However the cleaner and more Maven2 solution
>     would be to let the Maven2 and the POM do the work itself.
> 


Smith, Matt wrote:
> 
> 
> ...
>>  A second step could be to identify commonly changed items in the XML
>> files and isolate those changes to one file so that merging becomes
>> easier. 
> ...
> 
> 
> Not sure how common my changes are, but:
> 
> 1) I change cas-servlet.xml to reflect my "ThemeName" and "basename".
> 2) I change deployerConfigContext.xml to reflect my
> authenticationHandler.
> 3) I change securityContext.xml to remove "battags" from "ROLE_ADMIN",
> and eventually will be replacing the inMemoryDaoImpl with something
> better.
> 4) I include my view pages in views/jsp/uconn
> 5) I include my themes in themes/uconn
> 6) I modify the log4j.properties in WEB-INF/classes
> 7) I add a uconn.properties and a uconn_views.properties to
> WEB-INF/classes.
> 
> If the XML changes in 1-3 could be centralized, it would help.
> 
> I'll post something (to the Wiki if appropriate) about managing these
> customizations as a Maven project, once I actually hammer out the
> details.
> 
> HTH,
> -Matt
> 
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