Skinny Wars

[dburns]

Hello,

We are considering making Grails our framework of choice for developing web
applications.  But, due to the size of the war files, our administrator(s)
are not happy deploying to our environments.

We've researched and tested the 'skinny war' methods but it appears to be
an 'all or none' situation.   Is there a relatively easy way to either
include certain jar files in the war or establish a shared location for the
other jar files your project may have that are outside of the 'out of the
box' jars that are included with Grails?    Has anyone had success using a
shared location to place these additional jar files for your Grails
applications?    How effective would it be to not go the --nojars route and
simple utilize the dependency resolution to pick and choose what is to be
included in the war file....even though it could be cumbersome?

We are currently utilizing Grails 1.3.7 in a Websphere 6.1 environment
(soon going to 8.x).

Thanks,
Doug


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[potter_ru]

Maybe you can use such method.

You can easily exclude from war all jar files existing in /your/shared/directory. Add this snippet to your BuildConfig.groovy:

grails.war.resources = { stagingDir, args ->
    new File('/your/shared/directory').eachFileMatch(~/.*\.jar/) { theFile ->
        delete(file: "${stagingDir}/WEB-INF/lib/${theFile}")
    }
}