Handling to certain kind of dependent artifacts?

[Adrian Shum <tc...@taifook.com>]

Dear all,

For example, in my company, I would like to develop a kind of lib, but apart from normal classes etc, it also includes some special resources file (e.g. in myRes/ directory under the JAR).

For the app using such lib, I need to extract those special resources file, prepare it base on my app's setting, and put those generated resources in my final artifact/assembly.

I would like to try to write a plugin to achieve this, can someone tell me if it is the correct direction (I have no experience, nor have really studied in Maven plugin development  yet):
1) The Plugin will looked at the dependency list of the project
2) Determin each dependent artifact to see if it belongs to the above-mentioned special kind of lib
3) For each special lib, extract the resource files to target/special-resources
4) do my massaging in target/special-resources
5) Include target/special-resources as a resource directory of project

Is it a 'right' direction?

In order to archieve 2), what can I do? I need a special packaging (use another extension instead of JAR), or I can make use of the META-INF/ to put some meta info to let the lib 'declare' itself as 'special lib'?

Thanks a lot   :)

Adrian



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