Hi Lance, does this do what you want?
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/descriptor-refs.html#jar-with-dependencies It's maven but that would be an advantage I'd say… ;-) Chantal Am 05.08.2012 um 01:25 schrieb Lance Norskog: > Has anybody tried packaging the contrib distribution jars in the > jar-of-jars format? Or merging all included jars into one super-jar? > > The OpenNLP contrib has a Lucene analyze, 3 external jars, and Solr > classes. Packaging this sucker is proving painful in the extreme. UIMA > has the same problem. 'ant' has a task for generating the manifest > class path for a jar-of-jars, and the technique actually works: > > http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/manifestclasspath.html > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/858766/generate-manifest-class-path-from-classpath-in-ant > http://grokbase.com/t/ant/user/0213wdmn51/building-a-fileset-dynamically#20020103j47ufvwooklrovrjfdvirgohe4 > > If this works completely, it seems like the right way to build the > dist/ jars for the contribs. > > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com