Hi You might also want to take a look at appassembler-maven-plugin
http://mojo.codehaus.org/appassembler/appassembler-maven-plugin/ On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Maria Cristina <maria.cristina.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for the duplicate post. I am new to Maven and need some help. This > what I currently have: > > 1. > my project's src/main/resources contains two packages: > the default package contains two files jndi.properties and log4j.properties > another package named company.it.app.i18n contains one file called > MessageResourceBundle.properties > > 2. > my pom includes: > <build> > <plugins> > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> > <version>2.4</version> > <configuration> > <archive> > <manifest> > <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> > <mainClass>company.it.app.MyApp</mainClass> > </manifest> > <manifestEntries> > <Class-Path>config/</Class-Path> > </manifestEntries> > </archive> > </configuration> > </plugin> > </plugins> > </build> > > > 3. > my class references the resource bundle as follows: > private static final String BUNDLE_NAME = > "company.it.app.i18n.MessageResourceBundle"; > > 4. > inside the generated executable jar file app-1.0.jar contains: > > (i) > in the manifest the following class path and main class: > Class-Path: config/ log4j-1.2.7.jar (and other dependent jars) > Main-Class: company.it.app.MyApp > > (ii) > config/jndi.properties > config/log4j.properties > > (iii) > company\it\app\i18n\MessageResourceBundle.properties > > my IDE results is successful: > clean and build works and the JUnit tests run successfully > > then I do several manual steps > copy app-1.0.jar to a my destination folder named testapp > remove jndi.properties and log4j.properties from app-1.0.jar and copy to a > folder named config in folder testapp > copy log4j-1.2.7.jar (and other dependent jars) to the folder testapp > > my command line result is successful: > java -jar app-1.0.jar > > I'd like to make some changes to achieve the following: > > because I'd like to automate my manual steps, I'd like to use Maven to > automate the creation of a zip file containing: > > app-1.0.jar > lib/log4j-1.2.7.jar (and other dependent jars) > config/jndi.properties > config/log4j.properties > > I've been trying and I don't know how to copy the resources to the config > folder without breaking the JUnit tests. Is it possible, if so how? How > would I create the zip with the structure? > > Thanks in advance. -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org