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Re: [Jersey] heads up: trunk might become unstable

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:30:54 +0200

Matt Brozowski wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com
> <mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com>> wrote:
>
> We want to create a bundle jar that for those not using maven so
> that they don't have to explicitly included 'n' jars of modules. Do
> you know of any other type of plugin that can support this?
>
> Do you know how to disable the building of this module by default
> but enable it via an mvn parameter? if so i can modify the Hudson
> task to do that.
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> The most common way that I know of is to use the maven-assembly-plugin
> to create a jar from other jars. That seems like to most likely way to
> make the bundle jar that you want.
>
> Matt Brozowski
>
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/
>

Thanks i will try and have a play at some point. However, there could be
an issue which is why Jakib did not use it. I am not sure if it can
assemble META-INF/services files from multiple jars into one file in the
bundled jar.

Paul.

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