downloading resources

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Crain
Hi, There are several external shared libraries available via http in tar.gz files that I want to include in a jar. I do not want to check these files into my scm. How do I get maven to 1) Check if they are already present, and if not 2) Download the tarball 3) Uncompress it to my projects

Re: downloading resources

2011-01-19 Thread Adam Crain
What phase should I be doing this in to insure that they make it into the bundle? On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: 3) Uncompress it to my projects src/main/resources folder Oh and btw you should probably not be uncompressing to src/main/resources but

dynamic properties and lifecycle question

2010-12-22 Thread Adam Crain
Hi, I'm new to maven plugins/lifecycle issues. I have a dependency that has a classifier that depends on the platform it is running on (jar contains .so or .dll). I am using a plugin I write to set a property for the classifier (by asking for OS/architecture/etc). The plugin works, but it's not