java - VAADIN cannot find themes when in productionMode

Question

I have custom theme for my VAADIN application in src/main/webapp/VAADIN/themes/mytheme/ with files mytheme.scss and styles.scss. Everything works fine when the vaadin productionMode deployment parameter is set to false in web.xml. When I set the parameter to true, suddenly Vaadin cannot find the resources for my theme and keeps complaining with:

Requested resource [/VAADIN/themes/mytheme/styles.css] not found from filesystem or through class loader. Add widgetset and/or theme JAR to your classpath or add files to WebContent/VAADIN folder

I dont have a /WebContent directory but /webapp instead, since its a maven web-app project. I tried putting the VAADIN folder to:
src/main/resources
src/main/webapp
src/main/webapp/WEB-INF

but nothing works for the production mode. Any suggenstions? Thank you in advance for help.

Answer 1

You need to add following goal to your pom.xml, which will compile the .scss files to .css files:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>java</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <classpathScope>compile</classpathScope>
                <mainClass>com.vaadin.sass.SassCompiler</mainClass>
                <arguments>
                    <argument>src/main/webapp/VAADIN/themes/heijunka/styles.scss</argument>
                    <argument>src/main/webapp/VAADIN/themes/heijunka/styles.css</argument>
                </arguments>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Source: http://dev.vaadin.com/ticket/10291