build-process

I have two projects, my-lib and my-webapp . The first project is a dependency of my-webapp . Thus, when ask Maven2 to build my WAR, the my-lib JAR is added in the WEB-INF/lib/ directory of the web application. However, I want to have the my-lib JAR unzipped directly in the WEB-INF/classes directory, exactly as if the my-lib sources were contained in the project my-webapp . In others words, instead of having the following WAR content: my-webapp/ ... WEB-INF/ lib/ my-lib-1.0.jar ... (others third libraries) I want to have that: my-webapp/ ... WEB-INF/ classes/ my-lib files lib/ ... (others third

I have an MSBuild file that builds * / .sln files (builds all .sln files that exist). The build uses the Build target, so if no changes were made to input files, no project should be built again. I would like to execute some custom target only if a project actually gets built again. How can this be done? Both AfterBuild and AfterCompile are always called, no matter if the compile/build actually takes place. Basically you want the same behaviour as the PostBuildEvent for instance, so I looked up how Microsoft.Common.Targets does it (this file always provides a nice insight in to how msbuild is

I neeed to create multiple versions of my project using configuration just like we do with #define , #if , #endif . The down side of using these preprocessor directives is that I need to define symbols in almost every file of the project but I want to handle this thing by my build configurations. I am not even sure if Build Configurations will help me to do this. What I want is if I create a configuration with name "Development" and other with name "QA", my code would look like: if #Development or if $QA Kindly guide me towards achieving this. Steve Configuration Manager exist for this reason.