Packaging dependencies in expanded format

[Morgovsky, Alexander \(US - Glen Mills\)]

Hi.  Let's say I declare dependencies a, b, and c in my dependencies
section.
What I want to produce is a .jar containing a,b,c in expanded format.
I tried the following but it didn't work:

<assembly> 
        <id>bundle</id> 
        <formats> 
                <format>jar</format> 
        </formats> 
        <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
        <dependencySets> 
                <dependencySet> 
                         <unpack>true</unpack>
                </dependencySet>
         </dependencySets> 
</assembly> 
I also tried using the maven-dependency-plugin, but that was producing
NullPointer exceptions.  Please help me, as I have been stuck on this
for 6 hours.  Thanks. 


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