Provide the ability to generate multiple jar files rather than one huge jar
file.
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Key: MJAR-134
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAR-134
Project: Maven 2.x Jar Plugin
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 2.3
Reporter: Ron Gallagher
Attachments: MJAR-multijar.patch
In the environment I work in, we have a Maven project that uses the XMLBeans
plugin to 'compile' over 1,300 schema files. The jar file that's generated by
the JAR plugin contains well over 167,000 individual entries. While it is a
'valid' jar file, the tremendous number of entries in that file are causing
some obscure runtime errors. We have determined that the number of entries in
the jar file is the cause of these errors because the errors do not occur if we
manually break up that one massive jar file into several smaller jar files.
The attached patch file contains updates to the maven-jar-plugin that provide
this jar-splitting capability within the Maven build environment. This patch
basically adds a new parameter (jarFileCount) to the JarMojo. If that
parameter is 1 or less, then the existing jar-creation logic is used. However,
if that parameter is greater than 1, then multiple jar files are created, each
with about the same number of files in them. The classifier is used to
differentiate the various jar files that are crated when the jarFileCount
parameter is greater than one. The sizes of these smaller jar files may vary
greatly, but the number of files in them will be relatively consistent.
The attached patch also contains several integration tests which exercise this
new capability.
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