[jira] (MASSEMBLY-360) When using mulitple Spring dependencies, the files from META-INF (from the Spring jars) overwrite each other in an executable jar-with-dependencies.

["Viktor Podzigun (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Viktor Podzigun commented on MASSEMBLY-360:
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This also can be solved by using two other plugins instead:
{code:xml}
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
    <archive>
        <manifest>
            <mainClass>your.main.Class</mainClass>
            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
            <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
        </manifest>
    </archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<executions>
    <execution>
        <id>copy-dependencies</id>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
            <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
            <overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots>
            <overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
        </configuration>
    </execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
{code}

The idea is that dependencies are not unpacked, but put into the internal *lib* classpath directory inside the final jar.
                
> When using mulitple Spring dependencies, the files from META-INF (from the Spring jars) overwrite each other in an executable jar-with-dependencies.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MASSEMBLY-360
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-360
>             Project: Maven Assembly Plugin
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.2-beta-2
>         Environment: Windows XP, Java 5
>            Reporter: Marielle Enderman
>            Assignee: John Casey
>             Fix For: 2.2
>
>
> I'm working on a Java 5 project with maven 2 and I need to deliver an executable jar file. In this project I'm using different Spring dependencies:
> <dependency>
>    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
>     <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
>     <version>2.5.5</version>
> </dependency>
> <dependency>
>     <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
>     <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
>     <version>2.5.5</version>
> </dependency>
> For maven packaging I'm using the maven-assembly plugin to create an executable jar with dependencies (using the jar-with-dependencies descriptor). Everything works fine, except that Spring's XSD files can't be found. At least: not all of them. The fact is: Every Spring JAR file contains a META-INF directory with files like spring.handlers and spring.schemas which contain list of locations of respectively namespace handlers and schemas. Unfortunately these files aren't merged during packaging so the META_INF of the executable JAR file only contains the last one added. 
> This can result in errors like this:
> Example 1: The spring-context-2.5.xsd can't be found: 
> WARN org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader - Ignored XML validation warning org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: schema_reference.4: Failed to read schema document 'http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd', because 1) could not find the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element of the document is not <xsd:schema>.
> Example 2: The NamespaceHandler for the spring context namespace can't be located:
> Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Unable to locate Spring NamespaceHandler for XML schema namespace [http://www.springframework.org/schema/context]
> When I manually merge the files, the executable JAR file works fine. 
> I hope this problem can be solved. 

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