I have what amounts to an aggregator pom that I use to create an assembly of a few different jars.
I do this by having my aggregator depend on the jars I want in my zip and using a dependencySet in my assembly descriptor. It seems that assembly:assembly only actually puts anything in the zip if my aggregator has packaging jar. This is not much of a problem if the jars I am assembling are already built and in my repo. However, I want to first build the jars instead of just getting them out of the repo. So I add them as modules to my aggregator and must change my aggregator to have packaging pom. I then use a moduleSet in my descriptor, but the assembly:assembly goal just creates empty zips. Does anyone know why the assembly plugin only actually works when I have my packaging as jar? Surely assembling a multi-module project into a zip is not something that should be very difficult. -Andrew
