Extend Maven plugin to create bootable jar from existing Web Archive.

[chris-corless]

Please extend the wildfly-jar-maven-plugin plugin to allow generation of a bootable jar from an existing .war file. This will be prove very useful in those cases where web archive assembly is more complex and cannot be handled by maven directly.

[jamezp]

Do you mean creating a new project which has a dependency on a WAR?

[jfdenise]

I was thinking at a path to a war (or any supported deployment) file that would be used during packaging time, not a Maven "dependency". So a new option in the Maven plugin configuration.

This issue in some way is related to being able to build a Bootable JAR outside Maven, something like:
java -jar wildfly-bootable-jar-builder.jar build --galleon-layers=x,y,z --location=org.wildfly:wildfly-galleon-feature-pack:24.0.0.Final --deployment=mywar.war
The builder would rely on an API that other project could use (Arquilian?).

[jamezp]

Ah so more of a command line tool. I can kind of see both use cases TBH. The simplest being a new maven project with a WAR dependency.

[chris-corless]

Ideally, it would be through a maven plugin, so I could add it to the build.  But it would be applied at a later phase, after the WAR was built.

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On 9/4/21 1:24 am, James R. Perkins wrote: Ah so more of a command line tool. I can kind of see both use cases TBH. The simplest being a new maven project with a WAR dependency. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#227 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADAZ2FCOWVUCI5D2CVOEIC3THXGTJANCNFSM42SQTBMA>.

[jfdenise]

@chris-corless , the ability to reference an external deployment has been added. We plan to release an early access of the feature in 6.0.0.Alpha1. Let us know if that answers your needs.

[jfdenise]

@chris-corless , in the end we didn't release a support for "server mode" that was offering the ability to package a war in the bootable JAR.