manipulating an existing archive during assembly

["Beyer,Nathan" <NB...@CERNER.COM>]

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.

I suspect that I'm getting beyond the boundaries of Maven and should just move to creating Ant scripts for these application distributions.

Thanks.

-Nathan


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Re: manipulating an existing archive during assembly

[Geoffrey Wiseman <ge...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Beyer,Nathan <NB...@cerner.com> 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
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Re: manipulating an existing archive during assembly

[Brett Porter <br...@gmail.com>]

Use the dependency plugin to unpack the tomcat distribution, then
selectively include files in the assembly descriptor that you want to
reuse.

Cheers,
Brett

2008/8/23 Beyer,Nathan <NB...@cerner.com>:
> 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.
>
> I suspect that I'm getting beyond the boundaries of Maven and should just move to creating Ant scripts for these application distributions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
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