I don't think Maven was meant to solve application deployment issues.
The whole field of installers deployment is very complex. Sometimes
you need to install certain files as root, install cron/timer jobs, stop
and restart services, create directory structures, and so on.
I have been able to use
Yes, I'm using the assembly plugin to create the structure, where the
missing link for me is to deploy to other environments outside a maven
repository as explained below.
I'll add a shell script for now to do the final steps (eg. unpacking)
after the assembly built jar has been transferred to
