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Re: Best mailing list to start a Java EE configuration discussion?

From: Peter Penzov <peter.penzov_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 00:08:33 +0300

is this tool open-source? I would like to see it.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Bobby Bissett <bbissett_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Laird Nelson <ljnelson_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The first thing that always comes up is binding their LDAP/Active
> Directory
> > setup to our roles. I am unaware of any tooling to assist with taking a
> > black-box .ear or .war file and editing various deployment descriptors
> > inside it. I would be very excited to know of such tooling if it exists.
> > [...]
>
> When I was at Sun, I wrote a tool once that would take an archive
> file, expand it along with recursively expanding any contained archive
> file(s), iterate over all the files, and then run any XSLT
> transformations you wanted on whatever files you specified (you'd just
> make a list of what file name should be transformed by what style
> sheet). Then it would zip everything back up again along with the
> original manifests and all that.
>
> It was written in Jython, so the user inputs (style sheet mapping)
> were all plaintext. That could fix your problem, but if I could find a
> copy of the app it still belongs to Sun, now Oracle. If anyone wants
> to see if it can be shared, I can find someone to dig it up.
>
> Cheers,
> Bobby
>