The best approach I've found for this is to create a new jar project
that contains only the assembly descriptor in the directory:
src/main/resources/assemblies/your-descriptor.xml
Then, build/install this project so you have access to use the jar as
a plugin-level dependency, like this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-1</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>some.group.id</groupId>
<artifactId>your-assembly-descriptors</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>your-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal> <!-- more friendly to multimodule builds
than assembly:assembly or assembly:attached -->
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>your-descriptor</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
This will allow your assembly descriptor to be available for use in
multiple project builds, as above.
HTH,
-john
On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Benoit Decherf wrote:
Hi,
Some of our projects need to create a tgz with the same structure.
I'd like to not have to copy the assembly descriptor on all
projects. Is there a way to add a new predefined descriptor ? Or
how should I do that ?
Benoit
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