Hi,

I've been banging my head against this - can someone tell me how to 
split a master jar into two (or three) pieces?

The maven shade plugin helps create a master jar (or war) that can be 
run with "java -jar xxx.jar" (e.g. running the todo html viewer project).
I've tested this, and as long as there is a "src/main/resources" that 
contains the "WEB-INF" directory (and its contents), this works fine.

But for upgrade purposes, I'd like to split this jar into 3: 1 contains all 
the "other" dependencies, 1 contains the "isis" classes, and the final 
contains the application "domain" classes. Then I can easily replace 
just the "domain.jar" as I update my application domain design...

I thought it'd be as simple as making three copies of the master jar 
and deleting the "other" bits from each one (i.e. "isis.jar" contains only 
the meta-inf directory and the "isis" directory, "dom.jar" contains only 
the application domain directories, and "others.jar" contains the rest).
Then execution could be as simple as: 
"java -cp others.jar:dom.jar -jar isis.jar"

But this fails almost immediately with an unable to find class error 
while looking for google's commons List class (which is now in 
"others.jar").

Any words of advice?  

Regards,
Kevin

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