Sorry for the late response. Did you establish how you would do these?
John has recently implemented some functionality to enable aggregation
and maybe we can work through these.

- Brett

Allison, Bob wrote:

>After doing some experimentation, I think I have a means to accomplish
>what I want without altering the way the reactor works.
>
>I think I can convince my coworkers that we should only document the
>production projects; this collapses the first two use cases into a
>single use case that I think can be handled using the <module> stanza in
>the POM.
>
>The third use case is a bit harder, but with the ability to build
>Java-based plugins I think I can build a plugin to do the aggregation as
>a separate process.  The main things I need to figure out are:
>-- How do I define a new packaging value?  Looking at the m2 code, it
>appears to involve something called an extension plugin but I could not
>find a description of what is required to make one.
>-- How do I link the items to be aggregated to the project?  The likely
>answer here is configuration information provided to the plugin which
>does the aggregation.
>-- How do I ensure that the components to be aggregated are built by the
>reactor before the aggregation occurs?  If I declare the components as
>dependencies, what scope can I use to ensure the correct build order
>without also causing the web application war files to be automatically
>added to the artifact being built?
>  
>


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