maven-install-plugin: install an unanticipated number of jars?

2016-02-16 Thread Stefan Sobernig
Dear all, I have an automated procedure to obtain a (possibly changing) number of non-maven dependencies (jars). I want to use the maven-install-plugin to automatically install them as maven artifacts into the local or an in-project repository. I do not want to maintain manually install-file/ exe

Maven newbie: Marry maven classloaders and jars-in-jar artifact?

2016-02-10 Thread Stefan Sobernig
Dear all, I use Eclipse Tycho [1] to obtain and to repackage a number of Eclipse plug-in jars into a Maven artifact [2]. This artifact is effectively a "jars-in-jar": superjar.jar `- plugin1.jar `- plugin2.jar `- *.jar `- org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.* When using this superjar artifac