Hi, If you want to re-use an assembly descriptor, the best solution is to create an artifact containing the assembly descriptor. Then you have to specify this artifact as a plugin dependency for maven-assembly-plugin . After that, you should be able to specify directly your assembly descriptor contained in the artifact. If you want more details with code examples, you should read "the maven definitive guide" from page 303 to 306. It's available at http://www.sonatype.com/book/ , and there's a good example about how to make reusable assembly descriptors.
Regards, Julien Simon.
