I avoided answering this for a while as I hoped someone else might
make a more useful comment, but I don't like seeing posts - especially
from people new to Maven & this list - completely unanswered if I have
something to contribute, so here's my 2c...
Personally, I'd abandon the "jars in a jar"
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