Question

I have multiple Java projects (packaged to jars) in my product which have a single pom combining them as modules. Each of the projects has different dependencies and their combined dependencies are defined in the parent pom. I want to prepare the output for production and do the following:

1. deploy (copy) all my jars to a single location
2. copy the 3rd party jars from all projects to a different single folder
3. copy the configuration files (found under the src/main/resources) from all the projects to a third folder.

Anyone knows of a way to do it without having to manually copy each of the above for all the projects? I also want my future projects to support this deployment procedure without having to work too hard and specific.

Answer 1

I will summarize What I did in the assembly XML (to answer all of my issues) in addition to Andrey Borisov answer.

1. deploy (copy) all my jars to a single location [Used the “moduleset” element]
2. copy the 3rd party jars from all projects to a different [Used the “dependencySets” element]

3. copy the configuration files (found under the src/main/resources) from all the projects to a third folder. [Used the “fileset” element]

   http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd“>
   bin

   dir

   false

   <moduleSets>
       <moduleSet>
           <useAllReactorProjects>true</useAllReactorProjects>
           <binaries>
               <outputDirectory>modules</outputDirectory>
               <unpack>false</unpack>
           </binaries>
       </moduleSet>
   </moduleSets>
   
   
   <dependencySets>
       <dependencySet>
           <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
           <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
       </dependencySet>
   </dependencySets>
   
   <fileSets>
       <fileSet>
           <directory>my DIR 1</directory>
           <excludes>
               <exclude>*log4j*</exclude>
           </excludes>
           <outputDirectory>resources</outputDirectory>
       </fileSet>
       <fileSet>
           <directory>my DIR 2</directory>
           <outputDirectory>resources</outputDirectory>
       </fileSet>
   </fileSets>