Question

Is it possible to create a POM that, on package or greater, merely assembles the entire project (for example, into a zip file) and places it in target?

In this case, the project does not have any Java code in it, it is merely a set of scripts and files that I would like to have packaged. For the sake of uniformity (because our shop is all Maven), I would really like to have a POM do this, as, currently, we have a shell script doing it.

Examples would be MUCH appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

So I ended up with the following, which creates a file ServerSetupTools-0.1-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz in target and that works for me. The only downside is that I wasn’t sure how to get it to pull the files when they were in the root directory, so I moved them all to src/main/resources, which also worked for me. Hopefully this helps somebody else.

POM FILE:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>ServerSetupTools</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>ServerSetupTools</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<groupId>com.mycompany.utilities</groupId>
<version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
    <plugins>
        <!--  Run assembly as part of packaging -->
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2-beta-5</version>
            <configuration>
                <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                <descriptors>
                    <descriptor>
                        src/main/assembly/assemble.xml
                    </descriptor>
                </descriptors>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>make-assembly</id>
                    <phase>package</phase><!-- append to the packaging phase. -->
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

src/main/assembly/assemble.xml:

<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.0.0.xsd">
<id>dist</id>
<formats>
    <format>tar.gz</format>
</formats>
<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
<fileSets>
    <fileSet>
        <includes>
            <include>*</include>
        </includes>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
        <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
        <fileMode>0755</fileMode>
    </fileSet>
</fileSets>