Thanks, but replacing my "manual" copy goal with "copy-dependencies" and implicit dependency declarations made no difference. No error at this phase, it just doesn't do anything.

On 03/10/2016 02:57 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:
David,

On 3/10/2016 2:31 PM, David M. Karr wrote:
Several days ago, on the advice of someone on another list, I configured
the use of the "maven-dependency-plugin" in my POM so that the build
would copy some dependencies into a local folder, not inside the target
folder.

This worked the very first time I ran the build with it, and I've been
using the results for a while.

Today I started to look at this again, to ensure that these copied
artifacts would be properly cleaned up from "mvn clean".  I first tried
reconfiguring where it wrote the jars, changing it from "libs" to
"target/libs".  For some reason, when I ran the build, it didn't create
"target/libs", nor did it copy the jars.  At that point, I thought there
was some issue with writing them into a subfolder of "target".

I then changed it back to "libs", but I implemented additional
"maven-clean-plugin" configuration to make it delete that folder. When I
ran "mvn clean", it did what I expected, removing that folder, along
with "target".

However, when I then tried to build the whole thing again, I found that
it wasn't creating the "libs" folder, and it wasn't copying the jars
there.  I then tried manually creating "libs", but that didn't help.  I
tried adding "--debug", which didn't tell me anything useful.  I imagine
the same thing that is making it not copy the jars into "libs" is the
same thing that prevented it writing them into "target/libs", so there
likely wasn't a real issue with using a subfolder of "target", but
something else is just preventing it from copying the jars.

This is what I have in the POM for this plugin (eliding the details of
each artifact):
-----------------
         <plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
             <version>2.10</version>
             <executions>
                 <execution>
                     <id>copy</id>
                     <phase>package</phase>
                     <goals>
                         <goal>copy</goal>
                     </goals>
                     <configuration>
                         <artifactItems>
                             <artifactItem>
                             ...
                             </artifactItem>
                             <artifactItem>
                             ...
                             </artifactItem>
                             <artifactItem>
                             ...
                             </artifactItem>
                             <artifactItem>
                             ...
                             </artifactItem>
                         </artifactItems>
                     </configuration>
                 </execution>
             </executions>
         </plugin>
-------------------
My copy looks like this:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.10</version>
  <executions>
   <execution>
    <phase>prepare-package</phase>
    <goals>
     <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
    </goals>
    <configuration>
     <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
     <includeScope>compile</includeScope>
    </configuration>
   </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

I'm currently running 3.3.3 and JDK 1.8.0_74. I need to upgrade my Maven.

This works as expected, with dependencies getting copied to target/lib.

I have this in my JAR plugin:

<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>

along with specifying the main class.

I create both a zip and a tar.gz file with the assembly plugin.

An end user just unpacks the archive, changes to the directory where the
archive was unpacked, and runs java -jar ${artifactId}.jar.

Seems to work reasonably well.

. . . just my two cents
/mde/
I use the assembly plugin to create a zip and a tar.gz file.



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