dan tran wrote on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:28 AM:
> <dependency>
> <artifactId/>
> <groupId/>
> <version/>
> <type>zip</type>
> <classifier>whatever you ask it to do in the assembly </classifier>
> </dependency
>
> the artifact should have this format
>
> ${artifactId}-${version}-${classifier}.${type} after it is
> installed on you local repo.
Thanks!
>
> -D
>
>
>
>
> On 7/11/06, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Martijn Dashorst wrote on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:13 PM:
>>
>>> IIUC The assembly plugin is used to build distributable artifacts,
>>> such as zips containing your project, documentation, installation
>>> scripts, run scripts etc. It is not intended to be put into a
>>> repository.
>>
>> They will, "mvn deploy" transfers them.
>>
>>> Maven only allows one artifact (the result of building your module)
>>> per project/module. This is either a jar, war, ejb-jar, or ear. A
>>> project/module cannot produce both a jar and a war. That is why the
>>> packaging element is in your pom.
>>
>> ... and an exception to this rule is the ejb-client and the test-jar.
>>
>>> Now the second part of your question: what /is/ your second artifact
>>> used for? Why do you want to produce a second artifact type from
>>> your project/module?
>>
>> The main artifact contains generated source. The generation process
>> also creates some additional files, that may not be included in the
>> jar, but are used elsewhere. These should be packed into a ZIP and
>> used elsewhere (well, unpacked and added as resource to different
>> artifacts).
>>
>> Therefore the question is still:
>>
>>>> even after reading available docs (mini-howto's and plugin
>>>> docs) I still don't know awhat I am missing:
>>>>
>>>> In a module I've created a second artifact with a different
>>>> classifier usilizing the assembly plugin. The artifact's type
>>>> seems to be the assembly's id and the file extension (zip) is
>>>> also defined in the assembly.xml. Now, how can I refer this
>>>> artifact in another module? Basically I wanna unpack the zip
>>>> file and add it as resource to my module. But if I add this
>>>> artifact as dependency with its type, the artifact cannot be
>>>> found. Somehow I must still miss something in the picture
>>>> what the assembly plugin produces and the differences between
>>>> a classifier and type with extension. Can someone enlighten me?
>>
>> - Jörg
>>
>>
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