Hi,
I am trying to use maven2 assembly plug-in. It seems to be completely
broken:
- First, a small problem: the standard assembly descriptor is not usable
because of it very strange name. If the app is called "myapp", the
resulting jar will be called myapp-jar-with-dependencies.jar. It seems
there is no way to change the name of the resulting jar except by
creating another descriptor with a different id. So, I copied the
standard descriptor and change the id to "app" and the application name
to "my", resulting in a file called my-app.jar. Not exactly what I
wanted, but better than the default name. Does anybody know an option to
choose the file name?
- Now, a bigger broblem : when using the jar-with-dependencies external
assembly descriptor described on Maven site, it works only if the
assembly workdir from previous internal assembly is broken. In other
word, if I use :
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
....
It works.
If I then use
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>assembly.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
...
it works using the previously created assembly directory. So I can have
a resulting jar named from the assembly descriptor id.
But if I delete the assembly directory and run mvn assembly:assembly
again, it does not work. It include only one dependencies in the
assembly. In my case, I am using Spring and it includes only Avallon,
which is a transitive dependency of Spring.
Looks like a bug ?
- Even worst if possible, the plugin creates broken manifest. The lines
are cut after 70 characters, in the middle of a jar name. This makes the
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath> option completely useless. I though I
could use
<manifestFile>src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
instead, using my own manifest. This would be an inconvenient, because I
would have to update this file each time a dependency is added to the
application, but at least it would work. Not at all. the plugin still
breaks the line after 70 characters.
Pierre-Yves
