maven, jsp files in dependency

Hi

I'm using maven2 for dependency management. I have one project that contains some java files and some jsp files and another project, a web project, that depends on the first project. How do I access the jsp files from the web project? I can see that the jsp files are added to 1-0-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar and not 1-0-SNAPSHOT.jar ( which is added as a dependency in the web projects pom.xml) ... Any suggestions would be appreciated..

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• Hi

  I think the correct Maven-way to do it would be to put the JSP files in your web project under /src/main/webapp. If that for some reason is not possible, you could use the Maven Dependency Plugin to copy the needed files into your webapp. Or, if you have a WAR project anyway, you could use an Overlay to copy the JSP-Files. The second option (which I'd recommend), would look something like this:

      <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
              <overlays>
                <overlay>
                  <groupId>myGroupId</groupId>
                  <artifactId>myArtifactId</artifactId>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <includes>
                    <include>**/*.jsp</include>
                  </includes>
                  <targetPath>WEB-INF/pages</targetPath>
                </overlay>
              </overlays>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </build>
  

  vpalle : thank you for the answer. WAR overlay was the right solution for the project.

  Thomas Marti : Glad to help. How about an upvote then... ;)

• The problem with that solution is that when developping with Eclipse, the project doesn't handle the overlay ... so the jsp are not accessible ...