On 6/28/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. See below. > > On 28/06/2010 4:37 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: >> >> On 6/28/2010 4:12 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote: >> >>> I am trying to build a pom in its own project that will assemble a tar >>> file and a zip file that will contain all of the jar files that we >>> build that need to go into the tomcat/lib directory. >>> >>> >>> I am missing 2 things. >>> 1) What do I say to tell the maven-assembly-plugin that I want a tar >>> and a zip built? >>> >> There are two ways to configure the assembly plugin - one uses >> "predefined" descriptors, the other lets you specify specific >> instructions in a descriptor of your own that you point to - use the >> parameter<descriptors> instead of<descriptorRefs>. >> >> > Where are the "predefined descriptors" documented?
See http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/assemblies-sect-basics.html#assemblies-sect-predefined Also see http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/descriptor-refs.html >> Then write your own assembly descriptor. > Do I need to write my own? Yes, I think so. >> See >> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html for >> instructions on how to do this. You'll see an element<formats> where >> you can specify the tar and zip formats. >> >> >>> 2) How to I tell the maven-assembly-plugin that I want the jar files >>> zipped up without the contents being extracted and zipped as >>> individual classes? >>> >> In the custom assembly descriptor you make, you can control this using >> the<unpack> option, see the details in the above documentation. >> >> For a book chapter on how to do all kinds of things with assemblies, >> see: >> http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/assemblies.html >> >> > Unpack seems to be too late. Once you merge the jars, I don't see how > you can reconstruct the jars during the unpack. Sorry, I meant to suggest you use the <unpack>false</unpack> setting, to prevent the Jars from being unpacked. According to the documentation, this is the default - so maybe it will do just what you want by default :-) -Marshall Schor > > Ron >> -Marshall Schor >> >> >> >> >> >>> I have built a test pom shown below. >>> Since it has >>> <descriptorRef> >>> jar-with-dependencies >>> </descriptorRef> >>> it restructures the internal jar contents rather than creating a tar >>> of jar files. >>> >>> I did find a nice article from Sonatype but these questions remain. >>> Ron >>> >>> >>> >>> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; >>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; >>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 >>> http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd";> >>> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> >>> <parent> >>> <groupId>com.artifact_software.lms</groupId> >>> <artifactId>lms-pom-master</artifactId> >>> <version>1.8.3-SNAPSHOT</version> >>> </parent> >>> >>> <groupId>com.artifact_software.lms</groupId> >>> <artifactId>lms-deployment-jars</artifactId> >>> <version>1.8.3-SNAPSHOT</version> >>> <packaging>pom</packaging> >>> <description>Artifact LMS Portal Shared Library Archive >>> builder.</description> >>> >>> <name>lms-deploymentjars</name> >>> >>> <properties> >>> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> >>> </properties> >>> >>> <dependencies> >>> <dependency> >>> <groupId>com.artifact_software.lms</groupId> >>> <artifactId>lms-pom-spring-hibernate-mysql-tomcat</artifactId> >>> <version>${lms-project.version}</version> >>> <type>pom</type> >>> </dependency> >>> <dependency> >>> <groupId>com.artifact_software.lms</groupId> >>> <artifactId>lms-pom-jsf</artifactId> >>> <version>${lms-project.version}</version> >>> <type>pom</type> >>> </dependency> >>> </dependencies> >>> <build> >>> <plugins> >>> <plugin> >>> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> >>> <version>2.2-beta-2</version> >>> <executions> >>> <execution> >>> <id>create-jar-deployment-archive</id> >>> <phase>package</phase> >>> <goals> >>> <goal>single</goal> >>> </goals> >>> <configuration> >>> <descriptorRefs> >>> <descriptorRef> >>> jar-with-dependencies >>> </descriptorRef> >>> </descriptorRefs> >>> </configuration> >>> </execution> >>> </executions> >>> </plugin> >>> </plugins> >>> </build> >>> >>> </project> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
