I have been busy during all 2010 with Stonyfish (a start-up I founded with a former colleague from 8×8), but I did not stop improving the jarc tool. The most important new feature is the ability of generating war files (packaged servlets):
A war file can be created by adding an X-Jarc-Web-App attribute in the manifest header that point to the servlet descriptor file. e.g.:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
X-Jarc-Web-App: org/implementers/servlet/http/web.xml
The syntax of the web.xml file has also been extended to permit to list file and jar files that need to be copied into the WEB-INF/classes directory:
<web-app>
<lib>file1.jar</lib>
<lib copy="true">file2.jar</lib>
<data>lang/project.properties</data>
</web-app>
The latest version (0.2.19) also run the junit tests with the assertions enabled and fixes a lot of bugs found during 2010.
See the previous blog entries on this subject to find how to install the jarc tool. as always the source code is available under an Affero GPL 3 license.