Maven combine two project

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How can i combine two maven projects. One is webapp, and other is some javascript library (also webapp) which i want to combine with others project.

Or, would be better, how to add some outside folder with js files to maven project that can be deployed on testing server and then build to war.

From my point of view JS are considered as resources and it should go along with project it self, if you want to have different JS to bundled with war then you should use profile in maven for the same. — Bilbo Baggins, Dec 08 '14 at 10:58

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '14 at 11:03

Have a look at overlays in the Maven WAR Plugin documentation. This explains how Maven merges resources from different web projects into a single WAR.

In a nutshell, you create several WAR files of all the dependencies (usually, you already have this but you can even do this if they aren't real working web projects). Then you can pull these in as dependencies. The important part here is to specify the type of the dependency (<type>war</type>); otherwise Maven will try to add the JAR.

The WAR plugin will notice the additional WARs in the list of dependencies and merge them.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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You can create One parent project and Two modul project. You will have 3 pom.xml files. modul projects extendens dependencies from parent project. Maven parent pom vs modules pom, Multimodule project

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answered Dec 08 '14 at 10:57

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 11:07

Maven WAR Overlays could solve the problem. If you have two maven web projects, and one of your Web Project depends on the other's you could declare the dependent project as a dependency and do an overlay.

Reference:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/overlays.html

Maven combine two project

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