Forget what I said, you only want the sources so you can run it from the project pom. Take a look at the assembly descriptor of the maven project itself.
[1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/resources/tags/apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor-1.0.1/src/main/resources/assemblies/source-release.xml Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ IPROFS BV. Claus Sluterweg 125 2012 WS Haarlem http://www.iprofs.nl On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Nick Stolwijk <nick.stolw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes, try again. ;) The assembly plugin is what you want, just remember that > the project pom will be build before the others, so you can't attach the > assembly plugin to that one. You will need an extra module, which depends on > all the others and create it from there. > > Hth, > > Nick Stolwijk > ~Java Developer~ > > IPROFS BV. > Claus Sluterweg 125 > 2012 WS Haarlem > http://www.iprofs.nl > > > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Michael Remijan <mjremi...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> I have a multi-module project and at the project POM level (not the module >> level) I want to create a a zip of the entire multi-module project excluding >> the common stuff like CVS dirs and target dirs. I've tried configuring the >> assembly plugin but haven't been able to get it to work. Any ideas? > > >