Maven assembly - Error reading assemblies

Question

I have defined a personalized jar-with-dependencies assembly descriptor. However, when I execute it with mvn assembly:assembly, I get :

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[INFO] META-INF/          


        

Answer 1

assembly is trying to open /assemblies/${ref}.xml in classpath check this

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/xref/org/apache/maven/plugin/assembly/io/DefaultAssemblyReader.html