Re: Google Plugin In Spring Source Toolkit seems to be wipping out the project on run.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Chris <crehbein@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 19, 7:50 pm, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I have *no* problem with Eclipse Helios (3.6, updated to SR1)
> with GPE 1.4.0.v201010280102 and m2eclipse 0.10.2.20100623-1649 on
> Windows XP Pro SP3
> (if I understand correctly the issue, when launching DevMode, my
> index.jsp and other things like that from my "war directory" –$
> {project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}, i.e. target/
> <webapp maven module name>– would vanish)

Hi,

Its not all files in the build output directory - our HTML files and
any static resources that are kept in 'src/main/webapp' and copied to
'target/<module>' are left alone when starting dev mode.  Our
particular problem is that we had a separate maven resources project
that was being deployed to 'target/<module>' during mvn:package, and
those exploded resources were being deleted when dev mode is starting
up.

Yes, such resources will be wiped out. What's actually happening here is that GPE is using WTP's "smart publish" functionality to publish J2EE modules  to the target/ directory.

So, in the source of launching, GPE performs a WTP publish. The WTP publish will copy any J2EE modules that it knows about over to the target/ directory, which means that all of your resources in src/main/webapp will be copied over properly. If you're got Maven's integration with WTP installed, then the target/WEB-INF/lib directory will contain all of the libraries that are in the runtime scope which are defined in your pom.xml file. 

However, the publish is a "smart" one - so if any resources to be published already exist in the target/ directory and are unchanged, the copy of that file is not performed. In addition, if any resources are found in the target/ directory that the publisher did not mean to create, then they are deleted. 

In the next version of GPE, I think we'll consider either:

1) Allow the user to specify which folders should remain untouched during a smart publish

2) Switch over to a "full publish" - that will leave resources that are unknown alone.

 

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