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Eyal Golan
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We have a web application that is built with Wicket. Our reports are generated using the Eclipse  BIRT plugin. The reports are in a separate project, and are then assembled to a WAR file. There is a BIRT prototype WAR file that is used for that purpose. Here you can find out more about the integration with Tomcat.

The problem for me was how to automate the assembly and also how to keep track of changes I made in the BIRT’s code (like removing a button from a jsp file). Up until now, I used an ANT script that took from the local copy of the prototype everything it needed and zipped it as a WAR file.

Instead of that, we created a POM file that does everything for me. Now I keepall BIRT’s files such as jsp and html, in SVN. The only local copies are the jar library files that are needed by BIRT. We plan to put them in our archyfactory so even this won’t be from the local machine. Another option is to create a system environment that the pom will check the location of the libs from there.

The POM below is what we created.

Note

  • We use a parent pom, which is simple and used for versioning stuff
  • I copy the output WAR to a local location and then move it to our dev location.

Hope that helps.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<parent>
		<groupId>com.my.com</groupId>
		<artifactId>my-com-parent</artifactId>
		<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	</parent>
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>com.my.com</groupId>
	<artifactId>reports-webapp</artifactId>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<name>company reports webapp</name>
	<properties>
	    <birt.runtime.location>C:/java/birt-runtime-2_3_0/WebViewerExample</birt.runtime.location>
		<birt.runtime.libs>${birt.runtime.location}/WEB-INF/lib</birt.runtime.libs>
		<birt.runtime.platform>${birt.runtime.location}/WEB-INF/platform</birt.runtime.platform>
		<birt.runtime.version>2.3.0</birt.runtime.version>
	</properties>
	<build>
		<defaultGoal>package</defaultGoal>
		<finalName>${artifactId}-${version}</finalName>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
				<configuration>
					<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
				<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
				<configuration>
					<webResources>
					    <resource>
					        <directory>${basedir}/shared</directory>
					        <includes>
	                            <include>**/*</include>
	                        </includes>
					        <targetPath>shared</targetPath>
					        <filtering>false</filtering>
					    </resource>
	                    <resource>
	                        <directory>${birt.runtime.libs}</directory>
	                        <includes>
	                            <include>**/*</include>
	                        </includes>
	                        <targetPath>WEB-INF/lib</targetPath>
	                        <filtering>false</filtering>
	                    </resource>
	                    <resource>
	                        <directory>${birt.runtime.platform}</directory>
	                        <includes>
	                            <include>**/*</include>
	                        </includes>
	                        <targetPath>WEB-INF/platform</targetPath>
	                        <filtering>false</filtering>
	                    </resource>
					</webResources>
				</configuration>
				<!-- 
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<phase>package</phase>
						<goals>
							<goal>exploded</goal>
						</goals>
					</execution>
				</executions>
				 -->
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.0.2</version>
				<configuration>
					<source>1.5</source>
					<target>1.5</target>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
			     <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
			     <executions>
			         <execution>
                         <id>copy final war</id>
                         <phase>package</phase>
                         <configuration>
                            <tasks>
                                 <echo>Setting timestamp...</echo>
                                 <tstamp>
                                     <format property="timestamp" pattern="yyyy-MM-dd"/> 
                                 </tstamp>
                                 <echo>timestamp is ${timestamp}</echo>
                                <echo>Copying war file...</echo>
                                <copy file="target/${artifactId}-${version}.war" tofile="c:/viewer-${timestamp}.war" preservelastmodified="true" overwrite="true" />
                            </tasks>
                         </configuration>
                         <goals>
                             <goal>run</goal>
                         </goals>
			         </execution>
			     </executions>
			</plugin>
			<!--
				<plugin> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> <executions>
				<execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals>
				</execution> </executions> <configuration> <tasks> <echo>Coping birt
				platform ...</echo> <copy
				todir="target/reports-webapp-0.1-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/lib"
				preservelastmodified="true"> <fileset dir="${birt.runtime.libs}">
				<include name="**/*" /> </fileset> </copy> <copy
				todir="target/reports-webapp-0.1-SNAPSHOT/WEB-INF/platform"
				preservelastmodified="true"> <fileset
				dir="${birt.runtime.platform}"> <include name="**/*" /> </fileset>
				</copy> <echo>ZIP file...</echo> <zip destfile="c:/viewer-bew.war"
				basedir="target/reports-webapp-0.1-SNAPSHOT" /> </tasks>
				</configuration> </plugin>
			-->
		</plugins>
	</build>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
			<artifactId>servlet-api-2.5</artifactId>
			<scope>provided</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.my.com</groupId>
			<artifactId>my-com-common</artifactId>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>log4j</groupId>
					<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>commons-launcher</groupId>
					<artifactId>commons-launcher</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
					<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
					<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>axis</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/axis.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>axis-ant</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/axis-ant.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.eclipse.birt.chart.engineapi 
			</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/chartengineapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>com.ibm.icu_3.8.1.v20080530</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/com.ibm.icu_3.8.1.v20080530.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>commons-cli-1.0</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/commons-cli-1.0.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>commons-discovery-0.2</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/commons-discovery-0.2.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>coreapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/coreapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>crosstabcoreapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/crosstabcoreapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>dataadapterapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/dataadapterapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>dteapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/dteapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>engineapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/engineapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>flute</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/flute.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>javax.wsdl_1.5.1.v200806030408</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/javax.wsdl_1.5.1.v200806030408.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>jaxrpc</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/jaxrpc.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>js</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/js.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>modelapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/modelapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>modelodaapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/modelodaapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>odadesignapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/odadesignapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.apache.commons.codec</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>
				${birt.runtime.libs}/org.apache.commons.codec_1.3.0.v20080530-1600.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.dataextraction</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>
				${birt.runtime.libs}/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.dataextraction_2.3.0.v20080611.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.eclipse.emf.common</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>
				${birt.runtime.libs}/org.eclipse.emf.common_2.4.0.v200806091234.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>
				${birt.runtime.libs}/org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi_2.4.0.v200806091234.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.eclipse.emf.ecore</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>
				${birt.runtime.libs}/org.eclipse.emf.ecore_2.4.0.v200806091234.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>org.w3c.css.sa</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>
				${birt.runtime.libs}/org.w3c.css.sac_1.3.0.v200805290154.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>saaj</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/saaj.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>scriptapi</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/scriptapi.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.eclipse.birt</groupId>
			<artifactId>viewservlets</artifactId>
			<version>${birt.runtime.version}</version>
			<scope>system</scope>
			<systemPath>${birt.runtime.libs}/viewservlets.jar 
			</systemPath>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>

 

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