I think you should be able to construct this the Assembly plugin,
without creating your own plugin type etc which is a lot more work.
Various people on this list have created special artifacts similar to
what you're describing using Assembly. Give it a try before heading
down the "new plugin" pat
You might want to checkout the assembly plugin.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin
This plugin can do what you want, plus much more. Also, there is a new
release coming out soon (as soon as I can finish the documentation, which
should happen in the next week or so), which will
e to run the utility.
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> Before I try to create a new plugin that will build this kind of
> project, I'm wondering if anyone out there has already built this kind
> of thing and what you used to build it.
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> Thanks,
> ..David..
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I have a Java project that I want to build using Maven 2. This
particular project doesn't really produce a jar as its main artifact,
but instead needs to produce a zip file containing all of the runtime
dependencies along with a batch file that users use to run the utility.
Before I try to creat
