It is fairly common practice to make JNLP applications available to users by deploying them in web applications, with possibly many JNLP apps in a single WAR. This example shows how to include the output of two JNLP projects in a packaged web application that is defined in a separate project.
For this example, we require two webstart projects. In practice, the same procedure can be applied to any number of webstart projects for a given WAR project. Our sample projects will have the following groupId:artifactId:version attributes:
The relationship between these projects is that the webapp project is aware of the JNLP projects and the JNLP projects have no knowledge of the webapp project. There is no requirement for these projects to exist under the same parent, they can all exist in independent project hierarchies.
Because the JNLP projects have no knowledge of the webapp project, they don't need to be treated any differently from a normal standalone JNLP project as described in the Single webstart application example. Follow the instructions in that example to create the sample-jnlp1 and sample-jnlp2 projects. They can be deployed to any repository that the webapp project will have access to.
Create the sample-webapp project as per any standard Maven web application project. Once created, add the following plugin configuration, which uses the Maven Dependency Plugin to retrieve the JNLP bundles and unpack them into the web application project. This example will result in the JNLP applications being placed in the /webstart directory of your web application.
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>dependency-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<!--
Copy the webstart bundle in as a resource
before packaging starts.
-->
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>someGroupId</groupId>
<artifactId>sample-jnlp1</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<type>zip</type>
</artifactItem>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>someGroupId</groupId>
<artifactId>sample-jnlp2</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<type>zip</type>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/webstart</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
...
</project>