Test jar dependencies

[Chesshir John - jchess <Jo...@acxiom.com>]

Is there a way to get the archive section of the maven-jar-plugin to include test scope dependencies in the classpath?  I'm trying to use the test-jar goal to create a test jar alongside my main jar.  I've used two different executions of the maven-dependency-plugin to put dependencies with runtime scope in one folder and those with test scope in another.  I'm pointing the execution with the plain jar goal at the former folder, while pointing my jar execution with the test-jar goal at the latter folder.  It works great, except that the test jar's maifext.txt only includes the runtime scope dependencies in the classpath.

Here is code to illustrate:

     <plugin>
       <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>2.8</version>
       <executions>
         <execution>
           <id>runtime_copy</id>
           <phase>package</phase>
           <goals>
             <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
             <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
             <includeScope>runtime</includeScope>
           </configuration>
         </execution>
         <execution>
           <id>test_copy</id>
           <phase>package</phase>
           <goals>
            <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
             <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/libTest</outputDirectory>
             <includeScope>test</includeScope>
           </configuration>
         </execution>
       </executions>
     </plugin>
     <plugin>
       <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>2.5</version>
       <executions>
         <execution>
           <id>default-jar</id>
           <phase>package</phase>
           <goals>
             <goal>jar</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
             <archive>
               <manifest>
                 <mainClass>path.in.main.program</mainClass>
                 <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                 <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
               </manifest>
             </archive>
           </configuration>
         </execution>
         <execution>
           <id>default-cli</id>
           <goals>
             <goal>test-jar</goal>
           </goals>
           <configuration>
             <archive>
               <manifest>
                 <mainClass>Path.to.generic.main.class.in.test.scoped.jar</mainClass>
                 <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                 <classpathPrefix>libTest/</classpathPrefix>
               </manifest>
             </archive>
           </configuration>
         </execution>
       </executions>
     </plugin>

When I try to run the executable test jar, I get a class not found exception, since the jar containing my generic main function does not exist in the classpath, even though it does exist it the test scoped directory.

JOHN CHESSHIR
Software Developer
[acxiom]

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