Question

I have a muti-module maven project, and I created a new module that depends on 3 other modules. (I already have a web app maven module that produces a .war file, now I need this)

This module’s output is a .jar, and it has a few resources also which are:

1. spring context xml file
2. properties file

Now I want to produce a production ready folder so I can upload it to my server. I am hoping maven can do this for me.

I need the following layout:

myjar.jar
/libs/  (the 3 other maven modules that are dependancies)
/resources

Also, there are some generic dependancies that my parent pom.xml have like slf4j/log4j/ that I also need to package.

It would be cool if I could add a switch to mvn that will produce this like:

mvn clean install production

I plan on running this on my server via the command line.

Answer 1

I think what you are looking for is a Maven Assembly:

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/

You can use profiles to disable the generation of the assembly by default (can speed up the development process).