My experience with shade plugin is quite limited, I've only included other dependencies that are external to my project, not individual files. You might be able to create an assembly that packages the shaded jar with the additional files as long as you do not need the files packaged in the jar. That approach probably wouldn't help if you need the files on the classpath.
----- Original Message ---- From: Olivier THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Maven Users List <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2008 4:29:08 AM Subject: Re: How to merge pom files ? Thanks a lot John, this is exactly what I needed :) Based on the plugin configuration you suggested, I added promoteTransitiveDependencies property and set it to true so that transitive dependencies become direct dependencies in the shaded jar. But I have one problem yet : I need to add some files to the shaded jar. I saw you can exclude files from the shaded jar with filters property, but I can't see a way to add a new file to the shaded jar. I thought about creating a new artifact in M2 repository with these files to add and add this artifact to the artifactSet includes property. It should work but I wonder if there's an easier way to do it. Do you have any idea about this ? Regards, Olivier 2008/9/5 John Prystash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You might want to take a look at the shade plugin > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/ > > A configuration like the following should create a jar containing the > classes from the two t4 jars you depend on: > > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId> > <executions> > <execution> > <phase>package</phase> > <goals> > <goal>shade</goal> > </goals> > <configuration> > <artifactSet> > <includes> > <include>t4:t4-core-utils</include> > <include>t4:t4-common-utils</include> > </includes> > </artifactSet> > </configuration> > </execution> > </executions> > </plugin> > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Olivier THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 5, 2008 10:52:00 AM > Subject: How to merge pom files ? > > Hi all, > > I have two Maven projects named t4-core-utils and t4-core-commons. They > build jar artifacts and install them to my M2 repository. > Now I want to build a jar that merges both jars (extract files from these > jars and add them to a new jar) then install it to M2 repository so that it > can be used as a dependency in other Maven projects. > > I tried to use Maven Assembly plugin to achieve this. I could create the > new > jar and install it to M2 repo, but I have problems with the way pom file is > generated in M2 repo. > > The pom.xml is as following (t4-parent is used for dependency management) : > > <project xmlns="http://maven..apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 > http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> > <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> > <groupId>t4</groupId> > <artifactId>t4-core-all</artifactId> > <packaging>jar</packaging> > <parent> > <groupId>t4</groupId> > <artifactId>t4-parent</artifactId> > <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> > </parent> > <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> > <name>T4 Core All</name> > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>t4</groupId> > <artifactId>t4-core-utils</artifactId> > <version>${version}</version> > </dependency> > <dependency> > <groupId>fr.horoquartz.t4</groupId> > <artifactId>t4-core-commons</artifactId> > <version>${version}</version> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > <build> > <plugins> > <plugin> > <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> > <configuration> > <descriptors> > > <descriptor>src/main/assembly/t4-core-all.xml</descriptor> > </descriptors> > <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId> > </configuration> > <executions> > <execution> > <phase>package</phase> > <goals> > <goal>attached</goal> > </goals> > </execution> > </executions> > </plugin> > </plugins> > </build> > </project> > > And the t4-core-all.xml file : > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; xmlns:xsi=" > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation=" > > http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0../../../../exchange-ws-api/assembly-1.1.0-SNAPSHOT.xsd > "> > <id>t4-core-all</id> > <formats> > <format>jar</format> > </formats> > <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> > <dependencySets> > <dependencySet> > <unpack>true</unpack> > <unpackOptions> > <excludes> > <exclude>META-INF/persistence.xml</exclude> > <exclude>META-INF/ejb-jar.xml</exclude> > </excludes> > </unpackOptions> > <useTransitiveDependencies>false</useTransitiveDependencies> > </dependencySet> > </dependencySets> > <files> > <file> > <source>src/main/assembly/persistence.xml</source> > <outputDirectory>META-INF</outputDirectory> > </file> > <file> > <source>src/main/assembly/ejb-jar.xml</source> > <outputDirectory>META-INF</outputDirectory> > </file> > </files> > </assembly> > > The pom generated for t4-core-all just contains dependencies to > t4-core-utils and t4-core-commons. So when adding t4-core-all as a > dependency, I have all classes twice, in t4-core-all and in t4-core-commons > or t4-core-utils ... Actually what I need is that the pom for t4-core-all > contains transitive dependencies from t4-core-utils and t4-core-commons > (for > example hibernate, commons-lang, etc...), and not dependencies to > t4-core-utils and t4-core-commons. A kind of pom merging. Is there a way to > do this ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Olivier > > > > > -- Seules 2 choses sont infinies : l'univers et la bêtise humaine ; et encore pour l'univers, je ne suis pas sûr … (Einstein)
