Referring exploded war dependency in maven antrun plugin - maven-2

Question

I have a dependency declared as follows
<dependency>
<groupId>com.abc.webapp</groupId>
<artifactId>mywebapp</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
This war file which is part of an ear is exploded in the target directly and I need to copy a file(version.properties) to the WEB-INF/classes folder of this exploded war directory (target/mywebapp-1.3.2.war/). How can I refer to this folder in the antrun plugin without any hardcoding? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm going to cheat a bit and ask that you declare the dependency like this, with references to properties:
<dependency>
<groupId>${war.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>${war.artifactId}</artifactId>
<version>${war.version}</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
and the properties would look something like this in your pom.
<properties>
<war.groupId>com.abc.webapp</war.groupId>
<war.artifactId>mywebapp</war.artifactId>
<war.version>1.3.2</war.version>
</properties>
Now, you still need to change the war GAV if required, but you only need to do it once, and the <dependency> and copy will both refer to the same thing.
Then maybe you could also use the maven-resouces-plugin and its copy-resource goal.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/${war.artifactId}-${war.version}.war/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>where_version.properties_is</directory>
<includes>
<include>version.properties</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>