Editing the original question to provide all the details.
Added following in web.xml:
<filter>
<filter-name>WroContextFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>ro.isdc.wro.http.WroContextFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>WroContextFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter>
<filter-name>WebResourceOptimizer</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>targetBeanName</param-name>
<param-value>wroFilter</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>targetFilterLifecycle</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>WebResourceOptimizer</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
Created two new files wro.xml and wro.properties inside WEB-INF folder:
wro.properties:
managerFactoryClassName=ro.isdc.wro.manager.factory.ConfigurableWroManagerFactory
preProcessors=less4j,cssUrlRewriting,lessCssImport
postProcessors=less4j
disableCache=true
wro.xml:
<groups xmlns="http://www.isdc.ro/wro">
<group name="base">
<css>/resources/skins/abc/testing.less</css>
</group>
</groups>
Here 'resources' is a folder inside: src/main/webapp.
A file testing.less is added inside /resources/skins/abc/ folder:
.btn-expand (@height: 30px) {
box-sizing: border-box;
height: @height;
display: inline-block;
color: #fff;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 1px;
margin-right: 20px;
background: transparent url('images/sprites.png') no-repeat -5px -164px;
border: 0;
position: relative;
outline: none;
cursor:pointer;
overflow: visible;
}
The pom.xml file contains the following entries:
<repository>
<id>releases</id>
<name>Releases</name>
<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases</url>
</repository> (Inside <repositories> tag)
<dependency>
<groupId>ro.isdc.wro4j</groupId>
<artifactId>wro4j-core</artifactId>
<version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency> (Inside <dependencies> tag)
<plugin>
<groupId>ro.isdc.wro4j</groupId>
<artifactId>wro4j-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7.3</version>
<configuration>
<targetGroups>base</targetGroups>
<wroManagerFactory>ro.isdc.wro.maven.plugin.manager.factory.ConfigurableWroManagerFactory</wroManagerFactory>
<cssDestinationFolder>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/resources/css/test/</cssDestinationFolder>
<wroFile>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/wro.xml</wroFile>
<extraConfigFile>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/wro.properties</extraConfigFile>
<contextFolder>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/</contextFolder>
<ignoreMissingResources>false</ignoreMissingResources>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin> [Inside <build> <plugins> tag.]
I have not installed the m2e-wro4j plugin in my eclipse IDE.
Based on the above, I assume that when i do a maven build from command prompt [mvn clean install], a css file named base.css should be created inside /resources/css/test/ folder. I can see the new folder 'test' in the exploded project WAR file but it does not contain the base.css file. The console output looks something like this:
[INFO] Wro4j Model path: C:\workspace\{projectname}\src\main\webapp\WEB-INF\wro.xml
[INFO] targetGroups: base
[INFO] minimize: true
[INFO] ignoreMissingResources: false
[INFO] parallelProcessing: false
[INFO] destinationFolder: C:\workspace\{projectname}\target
[INFO] jsDestinationFolder: null
[INFO] cssDestinationFolder: C:\workspace\{projectname}\target\{WAR file name}\resources\css\test
[INFO] groupNameMappingFile: null
[INFO] wroManagerFactory class: ro.isdc.wro.maven.plugin.manager.factory.ConfigurableWroManagerFactory
[INFO] The following groups will be processed: [base]
[INFO] folder: C:\workspace\{projectname}\target\{WAR file name}\resources\css\test
[INFO] processing group: base.css
[INFO] folder: C:\workspace\{projectname}\target
[INFO] processing group: base.js
One more observation. To make sure that that wro.properties file is correctly placed and is picked up by the plugin, I tried some wrong values in this file [postProcessors=less4jtttt]
and could see an exception while doing the build. However, an invalid file path in wro.xml file did not throw any exception.