Full alfresco build - omitted directories?

[michalwrobel]

Hi,

We decided to use full alfresco source build during our development cycle. One of our artifacts is a new workflow definition and model. So I placed its bootstrap '-context.xml' file in the 'Repository' project in […]alfresco/extension directory. Surprisingly these files were not packaged in the alfresco.war nor copied into TOMCAT_HOME/shared directory even during full build.
I quickly scrolled throug main build.xml and didn't find copy tasks for /extension dir files for Repository project.

Is something wrong or is it made that way 'by design'? Is there any task doing 'tomcat/shared job' in Alfresco projects/ant build files obtained from SVN? Why there are files which are omitted during main build? How should I know what is copied and what is not? There are dozens of '.samples' 'files in 'extension' directory also..

[mrogers]

Its probably 'by design'.

The "shared" directory is for the user's configuration rather than the repo's, it should be fairly empty on initial install.

The main ant build will not do anything with the shared directory however the installer places some hand picked sample files there, and a minimal configuration, along with some extra config of tomcat.