> Is there a way to specify the location of the assembly? > Not that I know of. What you should keep in mind is that Maven is intended to deploy to a repository, and a Maven repo has a pre-defined structure. You cannot alter that.
> Can I specify the file's full name instead of the default appending the id > to the project file name? > There might be some hacky solutions to do something like this for the created assembly file in the target folder. BUT, as I pointed out above, the intended way to use Maven is to deploy to a repo. And in the repo an artifact (your assembly for example) has coordinates (groupId, artifactId, version, classifier and type). You shouldn't think of it as "file name". /Anders
