I'm not unpacking a patched jar, rather I'm unpacking the original jar...trying to create a patched jar if I could only get the unpack to work correctly. :)
-Dave On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Brian Fox <bri...@infinity.nu> wrote: > Late to the thread here, but why are you unpacking this patched jar? > Why not just deploy it to your repo manager and update your poms to > depend on it? > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:10 PM, David Hoffer<dhoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Perhaps I'm not clear what you are suggesting. I'm not trying to do a > > release, I'm trying to use a snapshot (that a different division at our > > company produces). However I need to make a few overrides to this > > snapshot. yes we do have a process to move our overrides into the > > snapshot...but that process takes some time. In the meantime I have to > > build with the snapshot as it exists. > > > > So what I am trying to do is simply unpack the snapshot, compile/replace > > classes with my overrides, and re-jar. I have chosen to rename the jar > so > > there is no risk of confusing which jar is patched. > > > > yes we use a repository manager, all builds get deployed to it. > > > > -Dave > > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:01 PM, <jie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi David, > >> > >> If you have all the source code, as you seem to suggest several times > >> in this convoluted post, then why don't you just deploy a new > >> -SNAPSHOT yourself to your local repository? You ARE using a > >> repository manager, right?? > >> > >> > >> > http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/01/best-practices-for-releasing-with-3rd-party-snapshot-dependencies/ > >> > >> -jesse > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:25 AM, David Hoffer<dhoff...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > 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 > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> There are 10 types of people in this world, those > >> that can read binary and those that can not. > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
