I have a project that generates a Flash SWF file as its artifact. At the moment, I have the 'packaging' value set to 'jar', for lack of a better value. The problem is that this causes an empty jar file to be created, alongside my SWF file. However, I don't see how I can avoid this, since the other "built in" packaging types (e.g. war, ear) are no better suited to my needs.
My POM is very simple, comprising only the use of the dependency and exec plugins. Looking at the M2 docs, the only way I see to have a custom packaging is to define it within a custom plugin. However, I don't need any additional plugins, and that seems like a complicated way to solve a simple problem. Is there some other way I can either define a custom packaging (or just a lifecycle), or even just tell the jar packaging not to do most of what it does by default? -- Martin Cooper
