How to either merge a jar with one of its dependencies OR reference a jar assembled with dependency

["Boyle, PJ" <PJ...@agriculture.gov.ie>]

Hi,

I am trying to build a set of projects that ultimately produces a
library that will be distributed
to other applications. The library consists of the web application
filter which needs to invoke
some EJBs running in another process. At the moment I have structured my
maven projects so I have
three projects:

a server project - this contains the server implementation of the EJB, I
have a sub-project here
for generating the .ear and one for generating the .jar. I have also
enabled generation of the client
.jar that my EJB client will use:

<generateClient>true</generateClient>

This works fine and my server-ejb and client-ejb components are created
nicely.

Next I want to be able to invoke that server-ejb from a library
component that will be distributed
as a .jar. So I have declared a dependency in this library project on
the ejb-client:

<dependency>
  <groupId>${groupId}</groupId>
  <artifactId>serverside-ejb</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.00-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <type>ejb-client</type>
</dependency>

No problems so far - however now is the piece that I am getting caught
out on. I want to be able to
distribute only a single .jar from this project to the other
applications using this library. So I want
to create a .jar which contains the classes from the ejb-client, along
with my other code for the library
information.

So I created a custom assembly that would perform this activity - that
works fine, so now I have created
and deployed a .jar to the repository called
library-jar-1.0.00-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar. Probably
not a great solution but works ok.

However - now I cannot see a clean way to reference this artefact from
my client applications so I am stuck!

Here is a little diagram of the current project layout:

authentication-server-project
-- authentication-ejb 

authentication-library-project
-- authentication-library

authentication-library-consumer-project
-- consumer-webapp

I have a feeling the best way to tackle this would be to build the
output from the library project so that it
does contain the ejb-client dependency but without using an assembly so
that it gets deployed to the repository
the way I want it.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Pj.


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