Hi David, If you have all the source code, as you seem to suggest several times in this convoluted post, then why don't you just deploy a new -SNAPSHOT yourself to your local repository? You ARE using a repository manager, right??
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/01/best-practices-for-releasing-with-3rd-party-snapshot-dependencies/ -jesse On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM, David Hoffer<[email protected]> wrote: > What is the maven way of creating a patched jar? > > I have a case where I need to apply some overrides to a binary jar which is > one of my dependencies. I have the source code for the overrides. So I > could create a child module with the source and the one dependency that > needs the overrides applied. What maven plugin would I use to extract the > class files from the dependency, combine with the new generated classes from > source, and then re-jar? The final artifact would have a new name, i.e. > _patched, so as to not get confused with the original. How can I then stop > the transitive dependency on the original jar? I would want the dependency > to be on the new patched version only. > > What's the maven way of doing this sort of thing? > > -Dave > -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can not. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
