What is the maven way of creating a patched jar? I have a case where I need to apply some overrides to a binary jar which is one of my dependencies. I have the source code for the overrides. So I could create a child module with the source and the one dependency that needs the overrides applied. What maven plugin would I use to extract the class files from the dependency, combine with the new generated classes from source, and then re-jar? The final artifact would have a new name, i.e. _patched, so as to not get confused with the original. How can I then stop the transitive dependency on the original jar? I would want the dependency to be on the new patched version only.
What's the maven way of doing this sort of thing? -Dave
