[m2] Complicated Assembly Guidance

[Stephen Duncan <st...@gmail.com>]

I'm trying to automate my normal file release process.  Right now it
takes two assembly descriptors and three commands to accomplish.  Not
too bad, but I'm wondering if there's a better way.  If not, maybe
this use-case can be looked at for ways to improve the assembly
plugin.

The project is a mutli-project with two modules: a jar project and a
war project that is a sample web-app using the jar.

The goal is to produce a directory with the following files:

RELEASE NOTES.txt
OVERVIEW.txt
myapp-version.jar
myapp-version-javadoc.jar
myapp-version-sources.jar
mysampleapp-version.war
MultiProjectSource-version.zip

So, I know have a src/main/assembly in the parent project with two
descriptors.  The first is a source descriptor, src.xml:

<assembly>
	<id>src</id>
	<formats>
		<format>zip</format>
	</formats>
	<fileSets>
		<fileSet>
			<includes>
				<include>*</include>
			</includes>
			<excludes>
				<exclude>.*</exclude>
				<exclude>target</exclude>
			</excludes>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>src</directory>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>framework/src</directory>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>framework</directory>
			<includes>
				<include>*</include>
			</includes>
			<excludes>
				<exclude>.*</exclude>
				<exclude>target</exclude>
			</excludes>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>sample/src</directory>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>sample</directory>
			<includes>
				<include>*</include>
			</includes>
			<excludes>
				<exclude>.*</exclude>
				<exclude>target</exclude>
			</excludes>
		</fileSet>
	</fileSets>
</assembly>

The second is release.xml:

<assembly>
	<id>release</id>
	<formats>
		<format>zip</format>
	</formats>
	<fileSets>
		<fileSet>
			<includes>
				<include>RELEASE*</include>
				<include>OVERVIEW*</include>
			</includes>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>target</directory>
			<outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
			<includes>
				<include>*.zip</include>
			</includes>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>framework/target</directory>
			<outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
			<includes>
				<include>*.jar</include>
			</includes>
		</fileSet>
		<fileSet>
			<directory>sample/target</directory>
			<outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
			<includes>
				<include>*.war</include>
			</includes>
		</fileSet>
	</fileSets>
</assembly>

And, finally, I have a shell script that runs the following three commands:

mvn clean package javadoc:jar source:jar
mvn -Ddescriptor=src/main/assembly/src.xml assembly:assembly
mvn -Ddescriptor=src/main/assembly/release.xml assembly:directory

Any ideas on improvement, either in what I've done, or
planned/un-planned improvements in plugins?

--
Stephen Duncan Jr
www.stephenduncanjr.com

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