The resulting artifact of a project A is a directory containing jar files, binaries and resources and I package this in a jar, or even a zip or rpm (if I had such a packaging plugin)
A jar/zip/rpm - nested1.jar - nested2.jar - resources/binaries - META-INF/manifest.mf manifest.mf is an OSGI manifest that specifies nested1.jar and nested2.jar using the Bundle-ClassPath. Consider now another project B that has a dependency on A. When building B, I don't want its classpath to contain A, but instead I want it to contain nested1.jar and nested2.jar. Is it possible to nest jars this way? Or would something like this require a custom process-resources plugin? -Andrew