Let me just start off by saying, I am new to Maven / Spring and am having a hard time figuring out what to do when my directory does not follow the preferred Maven structure.
I followed instructions for setting up a project with Angular 2 and Spring Boot via this tutorial. This tutorial creates two modules, frontend and backend, with corresponding pom.xml's and one parent pom.xml. I can run the application just fine using my IDE, IntelliJ, or by running "mvn spring-boot:run" from the backend directory. However, for deployment, I wish to package the application into a WAR file to drop into a Tomcat server. I am unsure how to do this using the pom.xml's that I currently have. I am quite sure that it has to do with my directory structure, however I am not sure if I should restructure my application or of there is a way to configure Maven to place the two modules into resulting WAR file that works as intended.
I have found a similar answer here but the last part is what throws me off. I do not have a /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF folder and am unsure where to make it.
My application structure is as follows:
AppRoot
-backend
--src
---main
----java
--pom.xml
-frontend
--src
---main
----frontend
--pom.xml
-pom.xml
My root pom.xml is:
<groupId>com.trinityinnovations</groupId>
<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>c-cop</name>
<description>C-COP Project</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<modules>
<module>frontend</module>
<module>backend</module>
<module>web</module>
Frontend pom.xml:
<artifactId>frontend</artifactId>
<name>frontend</name>
<description>C-COP Project frontend</description>
<parent>
<groupId>com.trinityinnovations</groupId>
<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.eirslett</groupId>
<artifactId>frontend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
<configuration>
<nodeVersion>v6.9.1</nodeVersion>
<npmVersion>4.0.3</npmVersion>
<workingDirectory>src/main/frontend</workingDirectory>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install node and npm</id>
<goals>
<goal>install-node-and-npm</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>npm install</id>
<goals>
<goal>npm</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>npm run build</id>
<goals>
<goal>npm</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<arguments>run build</arguments>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>target/frontend</directory>
<targetPath>static</targetPath>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
Backend pom.xml:
<artifactId>backend</artifactId>
<name>backend</name>
<description>C-COP Project backend</description>
<parent>
<groupId>com.trinityinnovations</groupId>
<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.restdocs</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-restdocs-mockmvc</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.trinityinnovations</groupId>
<artifactId>frontend</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient -->
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-csv -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-csv</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/mysql/mysql-connector-java -->
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>6.0.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate/hibernate-core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-datatype-hibernate5</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.javaetmoi.core</groupId>
<artifactId>javaetmoi-hibernate5-hydrate</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.maps</groupId>
<artifactId>google-maps-services</artifactId>
<version>0.1.20</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Please let me know if there is any more information that is needed.
