Show me your war, and I will tell you how it does!
Upgrading a Java project from a legacy buildsystem to Maven involves lots of reverse engineering to understand how the application works. Starting to investigate a project by its deliverables is often the most easy, taking a working application and picking away piece by piece, like dissecting a frog, to see if it still works after some abuse and halfchanced guesswork.
I started by grails create-app‘ing a simple book tutorial grails app, and grails war‘ing it. The contents of the war were extracted into src/main/webapp of a maven demo project, supported by groovy-all, GMaven (Groovy Maven plugin) and Maven Jetty plugin. (more…)
