Hey guys, I'm searching for an issue of coping resources from dependent maven projects within the maven-assembly-plugin.
The goal is to get all configuration files, from the assembled project and all its dependencies. For example: Maven-Project A /src/main/java/.. /src/main/resources/config/file1.txt Maven-Project B /src/main/java/.. /src/main/resources/config/file2.txt Maven-Project B has Project A declared as dependency. When Maven-Project B is assembled, the result should be Maven-Project B /src/main/java/.. /src/main/resources/config/file2.txt /target/dist/config/file1.txt /target/dist/config/file2.txt C:\workspace\ProjectB> mvn assembly: assembly In fact, my current result is Maven-Project B /src/main/java/.. /src/main/resources/config/file2.txt /target/dist/config/file2.txt A simplified version of my configuration: Project B pom.xml ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. <resources> <resource> <directory>src/main/resources</directory> <excludes> <exclude>**/*.*</exclude> </excludes> </resource> </resources> .. <plugin> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.2-beta-2</version> <executions> <execution> <id>make-assembly</id> <phase>install</phase> <goals> <goal>assembly</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId> <outputDirectory>target</outputDirectory> <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> <ignoreDirFormatExtensions>true</ignoreDirFormatExtensions> <FailureIgnore>false</FailureIgnore> <descriptors> <descriptor>assembly.xml</descriptor> </descriptors> </configuration> </plugin> .. assembly.xml ~~~~~~~~~~~~ <assembly> <id>dist</id> <formats> <format>dir</format> </formats> <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> <fileSets> <fileSet> <directory>src/main/resources</directory> <includes> <include>**/*.*</include> </includes> <outputDirectory>target/dist</outputDirectory> </fileSet> </fileSets> </assembly> The configuration is slightly adjusted to match to the example above. I have left out the part coping Jars. I used the dependency-plugin to copy the Jars into the target folder. But I can't use the resources-plugin (copy-resources), because I don't know how many resources are placed in the dependent project. With regards, Erik-F Winter