I avoided answering this for a while as I hoped someone else might make a more useful comment, but I don't like seeing posts - especially from people new to Maven & this list - completely unanswered if I have something to contribute, so here's my 2c...
Personally, I'd abandon the "jars in a jar" thing and use bog-standard Maven tooling including dependency management etc to pull in the jars you are depending on for your application. Especially seeing as you are a "Maven newbie." We've seen plenty of people new to Maven come to this list with nonstandard configurations and expectations of how they're going to change Maven to fit their specific needs. I think that most of them eventually come around and learn to love Maven as-is. That said, I'm not a user of Tycho so perhaps this is normal/easy and you simply need to ask your question on a Tycho-oriented list rather than here. Wayne On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Stefan Sobernig <stefan.sober...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > Dear all, > > I use Eclipse Tycho [1] to obtain and to repackage a number of Eclipse > plug-in jars into a Maven artifact [2]. This artifact > is effectively a "jars-in-jar": > > superjar.jar > `- plugin1.jar > `- plugin2.jar > `- *.jar > `- org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.* > > When using this superjar artifact as a maven dependency in a second > maven project (e.g., a CLI app), the superjar and its parts are managed > via Eclipse's org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader as > main class *when deployed*. From within Maven, however, the jars-in-jar > structure is not visible to maven when providing the classpath etc. > (compile, exec:java, or test using surefire), for obvious reasons. > > I am now watching out for strategies to make maven aware of the > jars-in-jar structure, by retrofitting or reusing > org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader. Unfortunately, I > am bare any knowledge of maven internals. This is my first maven > experience. Therefore, I am looking for your advise (custom > classloader?, ...) > > I'd appreciate any conceptual and/or coding hints. > > Stefan > > [1] https://eclipse.org/tycho/ > [2] https://github.com/mrcalvin/qvto-cli/blob/master/qvt-bundle/qvto.product > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
