if you change your batch file to build up a classpath for you, it could add in any jars in the "patches" directory onto the classpath first. You might want to have a look at the batch files used to launch some of the common Java apps, e.g. ANT and Maven. Also take a look at the batch files generated by the appassembler-maven-plugin @ mojo.
On 26 April 2012 09:22, connie_law <paulus.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been cracking my head to solve this for the past 2 days, hopefully > someone with similar problems before can help me to solve it or give a > workaround that works for them. Here's my scenario; > > I have a maven project with all the dependencies and resources packaged in > one zip file, i use assembly plugin to do this. I also include a batch file > as a startup, which mainly just doing > > java -Xms256m -Xmx350m -jar lib\myprogram-1.0.1.jar > > This package will soon be released to client. If in the future, we would > like to add a patch which will override the same file, how do we do it > without having to rebuild the whole project? Is it possible to configure > maven to read from a certain directory,lets say 'patches' first, then 'lib' > where all the existing dependencies are? > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Include-extra-dependencies-without-rebuild-project-tp5666999p5666999.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
