Creating a self extracting archive with the assembly plugin

[Zoltan Farkas]

I am migrating my maven projects from m1 to m2,
and in m1 for deployment I was creating self extracting archives by 
concatenating a shell script with the archive.

the shell script was like:

#!/bin/ksh
port=`uname`
case $port in
   "HP-UX") TAR="tar"
        TAIL="tail -n"
             ;;
   "SunOS") TAR="/usr/sfw/bin/gtar"
        if test -f "$TAR"
        then
       print "gnu tar available"
        else
       print "gnu tar unavailable using system default"
       TAR="tar"
        fi
        TAIL="tail"
           ;;
   "Linux") TAR="tar"
        TAIL="tail -n"
           ;;
         *) TAR ="tar"
        TAIL="tail"
           ;;
esac

  ............................instalation script pre 
unarch.........................

  SKIP=`awk '/^__ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__/ { print NR + 1; exit 0; }' $0`
  ${TAIL} +$SKIP $0 | gzip -dc | (cd $OPTIMA_HOME ; $TAR xvf -)

    ............................instalation script post 
unarch.........................

 __ARCHIVE_FOLLOWS__


this was very useful in simplifying the installation/deployment 
procedure of my application.

Is it possible to do this with the assembly plugin? If not what is the 
simplest/best way to do this?

thanks

--zoly


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