2009/3/19 Daniel Kulp <[email protected]>: > On Thu March 19 2009 10:28:17 am [email protected] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's a jar. I guess I'm too used to the atlassian confluence plugin >> architype (?) which generates a jar with all the dependencies. Is there >> some sample assembly plugin code to do this? I.e. "Take the jars from >> the repository, unpack, and create one big jar"... Thought it would be >> quite a common requirement? > > > That type of thing does NOT work well for larger, complex, Spring based > applications and also possibly not for CXF. In many cases, various resources > required by spring need to be merged together. For example, all the META- > INF/spring.schemas need to be merged together. All the META- > INF/spring.handlers need to be merged, etc...
Very likely true in many cases, but the chunk of pom I posted was from a CXF command-line client app that works fine via the assembly plugin with no specific extra configuration required. I think it's a case of 'YMMV'... Andrew.
