yuicompressor maven plugin and maven-war-plugin

Question

I\'ve been struggling with getting this plugin to play nicely with the maven-war-plugin for a couple of hours now and I thought it was time to ask for help. I have the plugi

Answer 1

I would like to add the configuration which worked for me:

First, to fix m2e complaining about the 'Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle' I added the following in the parent pom taken from this post:

  
    
        
        
            org.eclipse.m2e
            lifecycle-mapping
            1.0.0
            
                
                    
                        
                            
                                net.alchim31.maven                               
                                yuicompressor-maven-plugin
                                [1.0.0,)
                                
                                    compress
                                
                            
                            
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

Then in the war pom I put:

    
        
        net.alchim31.maven
        yuicompressor-maven-plugin
        1.4.0
        
        
            
              compress
            
            
               300
               
                 **/*-min.js
                 **/*.min.js
                 **/*-min.css
                 **/*.min.css
                             
               true
            
        
        
        
        
            maven-war-plugin
            2.4
            
                **/*.css,**/*.js
            
        
    

This generates the minified css and js files in the project build target directory while excluding the original files.

I hope this saves someone time.