Files got overwritten in maven project when building a war

Question

I\'m building a web application project using maven, and packaging is set to \"war\". I also use YUI compressor plugin to compress javascript codes in the webapp directory.

Answer 1

I think @user944849 answer is the correct answer, at least one of the correct answers. Another way of archiving this is to exclude the modified javascript directory from maven-war-plugin configuration, e.g.:

     maven-war-plugin 
    
        **/external/ dojo/**/*.js 
    

this will tell maven-war-plugin not to copy from the excluded directory, but since the modified javascript directory is already there, the war file still contains the javascript directory, BUT with the modified, in this case, compressed javascript codes.