how to run compile and packaging before test?

[Andrew E. Davidson]

Hi 

my unit test require I a *.tar.gz. The *.tar.gz needs to include the 3rd party 
dependencies and the projects jar file artifact. 

I tried using an assembly and setting the phase, so it will run before the unit 
tests run, how ever my project artifact has not been packaged yet

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Andy

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 
05:51:28-0800)

from my pom.xml

                        <plugin>
                                <!-- The assembly to builds the topology 
tarball we install on the Athena 
                                        platform 
http://joel-latino.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-create-zip-files-with-maven.html 
                                        
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/plugin-info.html -->
                                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                                <version>2.4</version>
                                <executions>
                                        <execution>
                                                <id>createTarball-assembly</id>
                                                <!-- we can not use package, 
local unit test will not run eclipse complains 
                                                        about 
process-test-classes <phase>process-test-classes</phase> -->
                                                
<phase>process-test-classes</phase>
                                                <goals>
                                                        <goal>single</goal>
                                                </goals>
                                                <inherited>false</inherited>
                                        </execution>
                                </executions>
                                <configuration>
                                        <descriptors>
                                                <descriptor> 
src/createTarballAssembly.xml</descriptor>
                                        </descriptors>
                                        
<finalName>${project.build.finalName}</finalName>
                                        
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                                </configuration>
                        </plugin>



here is my assembly file

<assembly
        
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0";
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
        
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0
 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd";>

        <!-- ref: 
http://joel-latino.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-create-zip-files-with-maven.html 
                
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/plugin-info.html -->

        <id>createTarball-assembly</id>
        <formats>
                <format>tar.gz</format>
        </formats>
        <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
        <dependencySets>
                <dependencySet>
                        <includes>
                                
<include>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</include>
                                <include>aid-athena-common</include>
                        </includes>
                        <useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact>
                        <unpack>false</unpack>
                        <scope>runtime</scope>
                        <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
                </dependencySet>
        </dependencySets>
        <fileSets>
                <!-- 
                <fileSet>
                        <directory>target/classes</directory>
                        <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
                        <includes>
                                < ! - - 
                                <include>vela.properties</include>
                                <include>application.properties</include>  
                                <include>rspscheduler.properties</include>
                                - - >
                        </includes>
                </fileSet>
                -->
                <!--  
                <fileSet>
                        <directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
                        <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
                        <includes>
                                <include>${project.build.finalName}</include>
                        </includes>
                </fileSet>
                -->
        </fileSets>
</assembly>