Usage

To use the Warpath plugin include the following plugin configuration element in your pom.xml file:

[...]
<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.appfuse</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-warpath-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <extensions>true</extensions>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <goals>
            <goal>add-classes</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>
[...]

And add the war dependencies you want included in the classpath as warpath type dependencies:

[...]
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.appfuse</groupId>
    <artifactId>appfuse-web</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <type>war</type>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.appfuse</groupId>
    <artifactId>appfuse-web</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <type>warpath</type>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
[...]

Note: Both the war and warpath dependency types are needed: the war type is used by the Maven war plugin to do the war overlay, the warpath type is used by the Warpath plugin to determine the correct list of artifacts for inclusion in the project classpath.

The following is also recommended to avoid several versions of the same jar dependency turning up in the final war build artifact due to the overlay process (all the transitive dependencies are available now!):

[...]
<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <dependentWarExcludes>WEB-INF/lib/*</dependentWarExcludes>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>
[...]

Happy war overlaying!