Question

I am trying my hands on JCranky’s tutorials about distributing akka microkernel with maven and tbt start scripts click. from the descriptor.xml file I suppose there are four directories to be created by the assembly pluggin.

below is the descriptor.xml file

<id>akka</id>

  <formats>
    <format>zip</format>
  </formats>

  <fileSets>
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
      <outputDirectory>/deploy</outputDirectory>
      <includes>
        <include>*.jar</include>
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
  </fileSets>

  <dependencySets>
    <dependencySet>
      <outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
    </dependencySet>
  </dependencySets>

  <files>
    <file>
      <source>src/main/start</source>
      <outputDirectory>/bin</outputDirectory>
    </file>

    <file>
      <source>src/main/resources/application.conf</source>
      <outputDirectory>/config</outputDirectory>
    </file>
  </files>

</assembly>

The following directories are created in the zip folder. that is the lib, config and bin directories. Reading from the descriptor.xml file , looks like the deploy directory has to be created. don’t know if I am missing something. Will be very happy for a clarification.

Answer 1

You have the wrong directory in the fileset.

Change to:

<directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>

It cannot find any files in the place you stated. Thus no files were copied and the deploy directory didn’t have to be created.