I read that thread and it looks like the idea is to refactor common into multiple top-level projects (option #2). If that's the case, you should be able to rely on the jar plugin as long as you are not trying to create JARs that contains classes from dependencies.
--- Ruel Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In our current configuration, the jar plugin is not adequate. For a > given module, we need to build many artifacts (see the build forum post > here): > > http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3923333#3923333 > > I spent some time looking at the assembly plugin as well, but did not > find it suitable for the following reasons. > > 1) It must be called manually. We don't want to have to call this for each > module. In Maven2, when you execute "mvn assembly:assembly" from a top-level project, it will run that goal on every subproject referenced. But, this assumes that you'd want to run assembly:assembly on every subproject. > 2) It lacks functionality for adding classes from dependencies into a > jar. E.g, I want to create a jar and add some classes from another > modules output. This is possible, but I'm not surprised that you didn't see how this is accomplished. The Assembly plugin is one of worst documented plugins of the bunch. You could create an assembly descriptor that would unpack a selected set of dependency jars. Although, I'd recommend against this. See the end of this message. > 3) It seemed to me overall that the assembly plugin was best used for > creating the final project structure, not for building the outputs of > each subproject. > I think that the most obvious use of the assembly plug-in is to use it to build final project distributions. A less obvious use would be to use it to create these JARs that contain mixtures of dependency jars. I'm just offering it as an example of something that could be done. I think the assembly plugin could probably do this, but it would be a stretch. I think this is a job for a custom plugin. Tim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
