Re: maven2 plugin suggestions

[Paul Rule <pa...@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for all the replies. 
I actually got most of what I wanted from the jar and
assembly plugin.

I configured the following in my pom.xml:

...
<build>
...
<plugins>
 <plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
   <configuration>
    <descriptor>src/main/assembly/bin.xml</descriptor>
   </configuration>
 </plugin>
 <plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
   <configuration>
    <archive>
     <manifest>
     
<mainClass>net.sf.toolinstaller.ui.cli.Main</mainClass>
      <packageName>net.sf.toolinstaller</packageName>
      <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
     </manifest>
    </archive>
   </configuration>
  </plugin>
...
</build>
...

The jar plugin generates the manifest so that the
classpath is generated and the mainclass is specified.

This means that my run script merely contains:

java.exe -jar ../lib/toolinstaller-0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar %*

The only thing missing here is automatic substitution
of the version in the jar filename - but I can handle
doing that manually for now. 

Then, I've configured the assembly plugin with
src/main/assembly/bin.xml which copies the required
artifacts into the assembled artifact for
distribution.

Awesome - great work from the maven developers.

If you want to look at the full pom.xml and
src/main/assembly/bin.xml files have a look at my
files in the CVS repository: 

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/toolinstaller/toolinstaller/

I wonder if it would be a good idea to enable
substitutions when the assembly plugin copies
resources.

Thanks again,
Paul.
 

--- Paul Rule <pa...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I often write stand alone apps, and I've often
> thought
> it would be good to have a plugin to bundle up a
> build
> complete with all the dependent jars, scripts,
> config
> files etc - and to even generate the run.bat &
> run.sh
> scripts. 
> 
> Is there anything like this currently (I talking
> maven2) - if I wrote it would anyone else find it
> useful?
> 
> Also, would anyone find a plugin that generated the
> java service wrapper configuration useful?
> 
> 
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