build-automation

I know about maven war overlays, but they assume that the original war file is a maven project. What if I only have access to the packaged war file and I need to modify it by adding new resources or updating few values in properties file using maven and push the new overplayed packaged war file to tomcat on a server? Is it too complex to do this in maven? If I install the war file in my repository does the maven build process automatically use it? It doesn't assume that the WAR is a Maven project, whatever that means, just that the WAR is a Maven artifact. You can install any WAR as an

Does anyone know how (or process) to remove comments from Java class file at build time? i would like to do this for specific packages in the project when the project is build using Ant. Any ANT scripts or some custom code most welcome. There are no comments in the compiled .class file. I believe the Java compiler does this for you already. Jason Day Class files don't have comments, they are removed by the compiler. If you want to strip comments from the source files, you could use the Ant ReplaceRegExp task. But I'm curious as to why you would want to do this. To shrink a Java jar file you

I have a solution with many projects. I Would like to build several projects with multiple configuration settings. e.g: ProjectA is set as target framework: 3.5 and platform target x86. output assembly name is: ProjectA.dll. I want, when clicking the build button, to build the project in several output files: ProjectA_3.5_x86.dll - for Target framework 3.5 and platform x86 ProjectA_4.5_x64.dll - ... This is what buildservers does. Is there a way to have config file that build operation looks at, and then determine how to build each projects, with different assembly names and different build

I have an automated build process that sets up the application for a specified mode (e.g. Dev, uat, live). Depending on this mode I want to update Connection Strings to the relevant one. However, in my Data Access Layer there is an app.config file which stores the connection string and this is used to feed the Settings.Settings file. In my builder I update the app.config's xml with the new Connection String and then the solution is built, however the Settings.setting file doesn't get regenerated with the updated app.config connection string and so the app doesn't connect to the correct DB. Is