On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Beyer,Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using the assembly plugin to generate a few archives for distribution. > I'd like to be able to download an existing archive (zip, tar.gz) and > extract some of its contents and then include it in an assembly. Does anyone > have suggestions on how to go about this? > > For example, download a tomcat distribution, extract the contents, remove > all existing files/dirs in 'webapps' and then add a war file and create an > assembly of the results. The WAR plugin can do overlays, but in this case you're not dealing with a WAR. The Shade plugin can also do some serious transformations, although the documentation's pretty spotty. The easiest thing is probably what Brett already suggested. - Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Wiseman
