Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring

Building a slimmer WAR file

The generated WAR file, task-time-tracker-1.0.war, is very large in size at the moment; in fact, it is approximately 32 MB! The default behavior of the maven-war-plugin is to add all of the directories in the webapp folder to the WAR file. For production deployments we do not need a large number of these files, and it is best practice to trim down the WAR file by excluding the content that is not required. We will exclude the entire Ext JS 4 SDK and all of the Sencha Cmd-generated folders under the webapp directory. We will also exclude all the resources that are not applicable for production use, including the index*.html files used during development. The only file served by GlassFish will be the yet-to-be-created ...