Question

I have a web application that I build with Maven into a war. But I want to generate a JAR with the maven project with the correct maven directory structure. I tried this but it throws away the Maven directory structure (src/main/java, etc.). My goal is to distribute this jar to other people so they can unpack and run mvn eclipse:eclipse and start working on their new web project.

Answer 1

Why not using the existing descriptor of maven-assembly-plugin..

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
  <descriptorRefs>
    <descriptorRef>src</descriptorRef>
  </descriptorRefs>
</configuratio