Hello all, I've got a project from which I'd like to create multiple 'executable' jar files, which will differ only in the 'Main-Class: ' value of their manifest files. (These jars don't need their deps, I'm collecting all deps via a parent pom with the assembly plugin.)
I realize that this violates somewhat the 'one artifact per project' philosophy behind Maven, but short of refactoring the project into multiple projects (most correct solution), or writing a launching class which starts the proper class based on a passed in arg (2nd best solution), I thought I'd ask here if this is possible to do in way a reasonably straightforward way (simpler than the above two options). At first, I thought I could use the jar plugin with multiple execution elements (with the differing mainClass entry in each one) but haven't gotten that to result in multiple jar files. Another idea is to use the assembly plugin with multiple descriptors but that doesn't allow for different manifest/mainClass values. Other, yet to be tried ideas are: multiple profiles, or somehow aggregating poms together but that's new ground for me. Any pointers, suggestions, hints, etc. ? TIA, ksb
