This plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-remote-resources-plugin ) is configured as a standard part of the apache maven superpom (version 6) ( http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/apache/6/apache-6.pom ), which references a "standard" object for this ( org.apache:apache-jar-resource-bundle:1.4 , located here: http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/apache-jar-resource-bundle/1.4/apache-jar-resource-bundle-1.4.jar ) This jar has "velocity macros" (same as we use for our xdocs->docs website building).
It appears to be part of standard apache build process to automagically include the license / notice / and some kind of dependency information in generated Jars. This would correspond, I think, to our use of uimaj-distr things in our Jar setup (where we have ant tasks that copy things). After reading the documentation, I still couldn't quite figure out how we could use this. Any pointers or explanations by those who've already climbed the learning curve would be appreciated :-). -Marshall
