If the goal is to create a "new" uber jar with th correctly merged files, 
you should look at the maven-shade-plugin.   CXF currently uses it to 
create a bundle jar and it does merge together various things such as 
the spring.handlers/schemas things.

Take a look at:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/cxf/trunk/distribution/bundle/pom.xml

Dan


On Sunday 13 January 2008, Kevin Conaway wrote:
> Currently, the maven assembly plugin (using the jar with dependencies
> descriptor) overwrites conflicting artifacts instead of merging them.
>
> For example, my project depends on numerous jars from the spring
> framework project.  Each of these jars contains a
> META-INF/spring.handlers and META-INF/spring.schemas file.
>
> When running the assembly, the resulting META-INF/spring.handlers and
> META-INF/spring.schemas files seem to be from the jar that was last
> processed.
>
> Is it possible to change the way the process works so that identical
> filenames are merged instead of overwritten?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin



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