Thanks Jason,

Yes I understand what you are saying now and I agree it doesn't make sense 
to create a generic EAR/RAR or even WAR, but I think it is reasonable to 
be able to consume/includes those existing resources from within other 
artifacts (esp. when the artifact isn't in your control to create in the 
first place).

I might have been barking up the wrong tree here, I'm not really dealing 
with artifact that is an archived of templates but just a set of files and 
resources residing in other artifacts.

BTW: I'm trying to convert existing applications from Ant to Maven with 
minimal changes to their structure that's why I'm looking for such 
flexibility. Anyway, in this case, I do have control over the generated 
WAR so I'll do what you suggested and it should resolve my problem!

Regards,
rOnn c.





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> Hi Jason,
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> Sounds like a good solution but seems like a perculiarity rather than
> something that is intuitive.
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Why would you package resources for general reuse in a WAR? The 
remote resources is simply an archive for templates.

> I think it is perfectly valid and consistent with Maven's notion of
> coordinate system to support war and any  other artifacts that can be
> fetched from repository.

I don't think it would make sense to fetch an EAR to have resources 
inserted into deployed artifacts.

>
> I accept your work around but it is a limitation that I don't 
> understand.
> Can you explain why it should not designed to support any other 
> artifacts?

Because placing resources in a JAR is all that's required. The remote 
resources plugin inserts the resources into the POM and any archiver 
can take advantage of that. The JAR and Javadoc plugin being the 
first examples of this use. So we would probably have to make a small 
change to the WAR plugin, or we could just make the change in the 
maven-archiver and then it will just work with everything.

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>> Hello again,
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>> Maven remote resource plugin is a very handy utility but it doesn't
>> support any other artifact type than jar.
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> Not designed to, and not intended to.
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>> My scenario is that I have a Maven project for a set of XML schemas
>> which
>> are packaged and distributed as war.
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> Why?
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>> I also have another dependent Maven
>> project which I'd like to include those schema. Remote resource 
>> plugin
>> seems like a good fit but it doesn't handle war resource.
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> You can put the resources in a JAR, then your WAR can use this to
> package the schemas in the WAR. And anything else that needs them can
> just use the JAR.
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>> Now, I haven't been reading this list long enough to know if it has
>> been
>> discussed and JIRA appears to be off line! Is it worth putting in a
>> JIRA
>> request when it is back up?
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