在Maven Assembly Plugin中包含子项目zip文件

Question

My Maven project structure is :

+ parent
++ moduleA
++ moduleB

In moduleB, I use the assembly plugin to generate a first zip file. As expected, it generates a moduleB.zip file in moduleB/target/ directory :

<assembly>
    <formats>
        <format>zip</format>
    </formats>
    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
    <fileSets>
        <!-- ... -->
    </fileSets>
</assembly>

Now in my parent module, I would like to generate another zip file, and include moduleB.zip file.

How can I do that? Should I use moduleSets? dependencySets? something else?

Answer 1

When you are in the parent project you cannot create an assembly that will embed its modules, but there are two solutions :

1. You can create a second assembly in the moduleB that will create the final assembly that you want and that will surely be different from the first one created, you just have to pay attention to the order of the executions in your plugin configuration
2. Or you can create a third module moduleC (for example ^^) that will have a dependency on moduleB (with type zip for example and a classifier that you can define in moduleB ) and in which you will create your final assembly

You can find additional information here : http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/faq.html#module-binaries

Personally the solution I always use is the second one with a module dedicated to the final assembly.