Maven tar target output folder

Question

I currently have a maven project structured as such:

-parent module/   
  -child_module1/
     -scripts_directory/
     -src/
        -main/
           -java/
           -resources/
     -test/

  -child_module2/
     -scripts_directory/
     -src/
        -main/
           -java/
           -resources/
     -test/  

  -child_module3/     
    ... (same structure as above child modules)

When the project is built it creates a jar for each child module and transfers it to a common directory outside of the execution path; copies all the dependencies of each child module into this same directory as well; copies the contents of each child module's scripts_directory into another common directory; and finally all its resources into another common directory

So the final structure after running mvn install is:

/packages/mymavenapp/
  -conf/ (contains all the resources of each child module's resources)
  -lib/ (contains all the child module jars (compiled) and their dependencies)
    -child_module1.jar
    -child_module2.jar
    -child_module3.jar
    -spring jars 
    -more dependency jars
  -scripts/ (contains all the contents of each child's scripts_directory)
    -run_child1_jar.pl
    -run_child2_jar.pl
    -run_child3_jar.pl

I currently have this build structure working. I would like to tar the directory /packages/mymavenapp into mymavenapp.tar.gz and push it to its nodes.

I know I can have a shell script that tars this directory but would like to know if I can do this in the maven build cycle easily

EDIT:

The location of the final target directory is not as important so the target directory

 mymavenapp/

could be inside the parent module's directory so as long as the structure inside mymavenapp/ stays the same along with its contents ie. mymavenapp/conf/ ; mymavenapp/lib/ ; mymavenapp/scripts/

Answer 1

You can use maven-assembly plugin in saperate build profile, at the end of build invoke maven build with that build profile

assembly plugin is very flexible and it takes a configuration file where you can define your input files and the location of that file inside tar file and the location of final tar file for example