I'm using maven to set up a war project in IntelliJ and run in it GlassFish. The war project depends on several other modules. When I run the project in debug mode, hot deploying codechanges of the changes results in NoClassDefFound exceptions. I found out that IntelliJ tries to redeploy the module jar but GlassFish keeps a lock on it so it fails. All the classes in that module are now unavailable, causing these NoClassDefFound exceptions.
IntelliJ generates the artifacts this way: the dependent modules are all added as jar dependencies as if they were external dependencies:
Now, when I remove the jar dependencies, IntelliJ tells me it found some missing dependencies and proposes a fix to add the missing dependencies.
Fixing those dependencies will add the module compile output to the WEB-INF\classes folder.
Once deployed, IntelliJ has no problem anymore hot-deploying changed classes to GlassFish since there's no jar to keep a lock on.
Problem
Every time I make a change to any pom.xml, IntelliJ refreshes the artifacts automatically, which is fine: I definitely want to see those changes appear in the artifact. However, all modules are added as jar dependencies again.
Question
How can I make sure that IntelliJ adds the compile output of project modules to WEB-INF\classes and not to WEB-INF\lib?
I found this question but it has two problems:
- There are many module dependencies so if possible I'd like to avoid specifying them all one by one in the unpack goal
IntelliJseems to ignore this. When I add that configuration and while it works perfectly in a maven commandline build,IntelliJstill refuses to add the module compile output to theWEB-INF\classesdir
I found a bugreport that asks about the same thing but for me it's hard to believe there's no way to solve this problem. Other webapp developers using IntelliJ must have this same issue, making it difficult to hot-deploy code changes, unless I did something wrong in my pom configuration.
