Continuous packaging with buildr

Question

Apache buildr offers continuous compilation. JSPs, however, can only be served in tomcat. The first idea is to run buildr package and copy the war into tomact. As deployment in tomcat takes some time, I copy the target directory directly into a separate directory. That directory is manually enrichted by the libs required by the project.

The issue now is that I have to trigger buildr package always manually. buildr compile is not enough as the content of webapp is not regarded. I put my JSPs in webapp. After an update of an JSP, buildr should trigger buildr package. I am aware that this is more than I need, but I can hook into some webapp task to do my copying stuff.

Therefore, Is there something similar to buildr cc? builder cp?

Answer 1

No, there is no such task.

You shouldn't need to package your war every time, you can point Tomcat to the target folder, granted that it contains the WEB-INF folder. You would need to redeploy the app on Tomcat anyway, but it would be less painful.

Yet another option is to run with Jetty, which is provided as a buildr add-on, and/or use tests for your JSPs.