[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-4081) Do not force that the exploded directory ends with ".war"

[Geoffrey De Smet (JIRA)]

Geoffrey De Smet created WFLY-4081:
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             Summary: Do not force that the exploded directory ends with ".war"
                 Key: WFLY-4081
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4081
             Project: WildFly
          Issue Type: Enhancement
            Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet
            Assignee: Jason Greene


In a standard webapp, maven creates the following directory and file:
// Exploded directory
target/mywebapp-1.0/
// War file
target/mywebapp-1.0.war

*Unfortunately, WildFly forces that exploded directories should have the suffix ".war"*. At least the IntelliJ JBoss app server plugin enforces this, if that's no longer the case, they should fix it asap. This has 2 side effects:

1) Every noob fails to deploy an exploded dir to WildFly in IntelliJ. By the time they realize that it's because they haven't adjusted the exploded artifact's output path, they're already using Jetty or Tomcat (which "just work" in IntelliJ).

2) As a result, maven and IntelliJ are potentially incompatible for WildFly:
If you just suffix the exploded directory with ".war", the exploded directory clashes with maven's war file.



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