Re: Maven: cannot run keel:maven

Shash:

> I tried "maven war:webapp".  But it pretty much took the same amount of 
> time, around 5 minutes.  Most of the time, looks like, goes toward 
> building the uber jar (what is the function of this?).

The uberjar basically contains all of the server-side components of
Keel, in a single jar file. In standalone apps, this gives you a single
jar to deploy. In client apps, ditto - one jar, double-clickable. In
webapps, it's done the same way partly to be consistent, and partly
because this is how the configuration is read now - out of a single
server-side jar file containing all merged resources. Part of the build
of the uberjar is the "config merge" process, which does slow it down,
but is necessary.

>   Question is, do 
> we need the uber JAR for a expanded webapp scenario, since this is, I 
> guess, for a fast edit/build/test cycle?

W/o re-writing the config handling (again), yes, we need the uberjar. No
doubt there are faster ways to build it, but I wanted it to work
properly at first, not necessarily quickly.

>   Also, when building the uber 
> jar, the temp directory is deleted which forces the expansion of all the 
> JARs from scratch everytime, even though none have changed.  Maybe we 
> can remove the delete step, with the gotch'a being you have to delete 
> manually if you delete some dependency JARs, or you deleted something in 
> your app? I am not too sure of all the Maven options, maybe I am 
> overlooking something obvious.

No, I don't think you are. I'm loathe to optimize this too much until it
settles down as completely rock solid, as anything other than a "total
re-build" requires more thought on the developers part, and there's
already too much to think about when building as it is (still).

Simple is a bit slow at this point, I realize, but I'd like to defer
optimizations as long as possible.

Mike

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