Combining dependency with related/required build step

[DariusGmail <da...@gmail.com>]

We have a JAR that is a dependency for many WARs.  In turn, this JAR has 
dependencies on some DB2 JARs.

Any POM using this JAR also needs to copy some DB2-related files to a 
place under the target directory. We do this by using maven-resources-plugin

Is there a way to have that build step done "automatically" whenever the 
JAR dependency is declared?



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Re: Combining dependency with related/required build step

[Anders Hammar <an...@hammar.net>]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:56 AM DariusGmail <da...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a JAR that is a dependency for many WARs.  In turn, this JAR has
> dependencies on some DB2 JARs.
>
> Any POM using this JAR also needs to copy some DB2-related files to a
> place under the target directory. We do this by using
> maven-resources-plugin
>
> Is there a way to have that build step done "automatically" whenever the
> JAR dependency is declared?
>

No, it's not.

The best way to handle this is to always read resources from the classpath.
So then you just need to contain these DB2-related files in a jar and add
that jar to the classpath (i.e. add a dependency).

/Anders


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