> There is no simple "symlink" that can be approached to resolve these > duplication issues because the directory structures are not the same.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that although the directory structure needs to be duplicated, at the leaf a symlink can remove duplication of the file data. Either the leaf in java-repository points to the avalon copy, or the avalon copy points to the jar in java-repository. I don't particularly care which. I don't recall if you had requirement. --- Noel