>>if your components are packaged as jar files hm, jars are java archives so I feel better if components containing sql-files and shell-scripts are compressed in rar files
>> ..to a source control system.. SCS and ant are used to create the deliveries shown in the picture, and these deliveries are plugged together in a projectbuild. But this projectbuild may take place anywhere in the world in any intranet. So svn or git is no option for that. And we do not know what the end result will be, eg application.xml may contain 20 or 80 ejb-jars >>What is it about the file server that prompts you to want to change? the enduser can get a compressed fileserver structure or a compressed maven repository. Both will work, only the access is different: .m2\repository\com\org\BusinessComponent\xy0032_8a\BusinessComponent-xy0032_8a-assembly.rar .m2\repository\com\org\UIComponent\xy0024_9a\UIComponent-xy0024_9a-assembly.rar If someone says maven is not thought to be used in that way, he may be right. ant recommends not to use if-statements, but who cares, so why not Burkhard -- View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Upload-arbitrary-directories-to-maven-repositories-tp5743526p5744376.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org