Problem related to maven-assembly-plugin and maven-dependency-plugin

[Saminda Abeyruwan <sa...@gmail.com>]

HI all,

I've using the combination of maven-assembly-plugin and
maven-dependency-plugin to generate the binary distribution.  The
pom.xmlcontaining these plugins has the "packaging" as "pom". This
maven module
listed as the last of modules needed for the reactor.

maven-assembly-pluging runs on phase "package" and maven-dependency-plugin
runs on "initialize" phase.

problem : when ever this module runs, whole of the project builds again. Ie.
compiling and running test cases happen twice.
Why this happens. Is this due to the <phase>initialize</phase> I'm using. Or
is there any other know issue.

Thank you


maven-assembly-plugin has a config as follows,
...
     =========================================
     <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.1</version>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <id>distribution-package</id>
                                <phase>package</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>directory</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>
                                    <descriptors>
                                        <descriptor>src/assemble/dist-
common-assembly.xml</descriptor>
                                    </descriptors>
                                    <finalName>dist</finalName>
                                </configuration>
                            </execution>
                        </executions>
                    </plugin>
...
====================
maven-dependency-plugin has configured as

<plugin>
                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.0-alpha-1-SNAPSHOT</version>
                        <executions>
                            <execution>
                                <id>initialize-copy</id>
                                <phase>initialize</phase>
                                <goals>
                                    <goal>copy</goal>
                                </goals>
                                <configuration>
                                    <artifactItems>

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Saminda Abeyruwan

Software Engineer
WSO2 - www.wos2.org