Goals Overview

For web application developers :

• javascript:copy-dependencies handles javascript dependencies and unpack them to your script directory.
• javascript:compile prepares your scripts to get packaged in the web application. An XML descriptor can be used to configure some scripts to get merged into a new file.
• javascript:inplace unpack javascript dependencies to your web application source, to enable quick development with servlet containers that don't require a packaging phase.
• javascript:compress use a configurable javascript compressor to reduce the weight of js files. Optionnaly also strip all debugging code from the scripts before packaging, by removing all lines that start with a special token (";;;" for example).

  For javascripts developers :

• javascript:package pack a maven based javascript library as a javascript archive to get installed/deployed in the repository.
• javascript:attach-compressed pack a javascript archive with compressed version of the library scripts.

Usage

Instructions on how to use the Maven Javascript Plugin can be found here .

The plugin can handle javascript libraries as maven dependencies