Maven JSAR Plug-in

What is a JSAR?

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A JSAR is just a collection of JavaScript files zipped up with the extension ".jsar" instead of ".zip" - bascially a JAR for JavaScript resources.

Since there is no standard way of distributing JavaScript files, I am introducing this format to fill that void. Right now there is no META-INF or any metadata files contained within a JSAR but that could change.

What does the Maven JSAR plug-in do?

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The Maven JSAR plug-in allows you to declare JSAR dependencies in your project.xml and they will be exploded into your webapp's JavaScript library directory when you "maven war". If you run the "maven war:inplace" target the exploded JSAR's will be copied to your webapp, and when you "maven clean" the plugin will remove the exploded JSAR directory.

Maven Goals

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You don't call plugin goals directly; the plugin does its work before and after certain other goals are called - namely, "war:resources", "war:inplace" and "clean:clean".

Plugin Properties

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maven.war.jslib.dir - This is the name of the directory within your webapp to store the exploded JSAR's. Defaults to "lib".

How can I get it?

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The easiest way is to just add it as a dependency of your project like so:

    <dependency>
      <name>maven-jsar-plugin</name>
      <groupId>org.osaf</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-jsar-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <type>plugin</type>
    </dependency>

You must also add "http://builds.osafoundation.org/maven/" to the "maven.repo.remote" file in your project.properties.

Fine, but I'd like to see the source.

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Just check it out of our svn repository:

Read Only: http://svn.osafoundation.org/server/mavenscript/trunk/

Read/Write (must have account): svn+ssh://br@svn.osafoundation.org/svn/server/mavenscript/trunk

Project Status

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The plug-in is currently at version 0.1-SNAPSHOT

Team

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BobbyRullo is only developer at this time.