Hi Maven Users list, What's the best way to create a jar during a build without attaching it?
Currently, our pom is configured to use the maven-jar-plugin to create it, but that plugin attaches an artifact, which gets deployed. We don't want that. That doesn't seem to be configurable. We could create a mini project and use maven-invoker-plugin to package it, but that's a lot of overhead (configuration and processing time) for a very small test jar containing a single file (used to test a classloader). We've also considered just using maven-exec-plugin to execute the jar command-line tool, but that's tricky to get right, accounting for JAVA_HOME, toolchains, etc. Any suggestions, or is maven-invoker-plugin the best option? I think the maven-assembly-plugin might be able to do it, and it has an <attach>false</attach> option, but I've never used it like this before. If that's the best option, does anybody have any examples of that kind of thing? Thanks.
