I would value tips on how to tackle the following. My repository contains a zip distribution (it's the Eclipse IDE), and I want my final build output to be a new zip file with the original contents plus jars that are produced from my source code.
Being new to maven (I need to use maven2) I'm unclear about: 1) Whether depending/pulling/unpacking the original zip from the repo can be expressed in terms of (a) native POM constructs and (b) existing plugin goals? Or will I need to write my own plugin to acquire/unpack the zip? If the latter, is use of ant via marmalade a concise choice? 2) What is best practice for locating the unpacked zip filesystem? e.g. should it reside in the target area? 3) How do I tell maven to place my output jars in the unpacked zip filesystem? 4) How would I configure maven to produce a zip of the new filesystem as the project's output? Tips appreciated, Jason.
