You could attach the common descriptor as a build artifact one module, and then use the dependency plugin to pull it down to each child module.
i.e. Use buildhelper-maven-plugin in rwcf-apps to attach dist.xml with a classifier of, e.g. assembly-descriptor. Now when you run mvn install or mvn deploy on rwcf-apps the descriptor will be published to the maven repository (local or remote respectively) Then in one of the modules that you want to use this common descriptor, add a dependency on the rwcf-apps with a type of assembly-descriptor, you use maven-dependency-plugin to copy the dependency to your target directory, and then your pom just directs the assembly plugin to use that descriptor. -Stephen On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Reto Bachmann-Gmür <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm having many projects that share some dependencies and that should be > packaged the same way. So I wanted to have a parent project configuring > the maven-assembly-plugin. > > I did this with the following in the parent pom: > > .... > <plugin> > <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> > <configuration> > <descriptors> > > <descriptor>../rwcf-apps/src/assembly/dist.xml</descriptor> > </descriptors> > </configuration> > > > This only works when the parent is checked out in a sibling directory of > the child. If one just check out a child project without checking out > the parent assembly:assembly wont work. Things work using a > descriptorRef but the predefined descriptors don't do what I'm looking > for. > > Possibly ways to solve the issues might be: > > * have the plugin look up the descriptor from the parent rather > * reference a descriptor with an http uri > * include the content of descriptor directly in the pom > > ...but I didn't find a way to do it in any of these ways. > > Any suggestion on how to make it possible to check out a single > child-project and being able to assemble it? > > If you would like to know more precisely what I'm doing, you may look at > > * The descriptor: > > https://knobot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/knobot/rwcf-apps/trunk/src/assembly/dist.xml > * The parent pom: > > https://knobot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/knobot/rwcf-apps/trunk/pom.xml > * A child pom: > > https://knobot.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/knobot/rwcf-app-webdav/trunk/pom.xml > > Cheers, > reto > >
