Packaging a jar into a dist dir with separated external resources and dependencies

Question

Here\'s what I\'m trying to achieve - a dist directory (or a zip file) that looks like this:

dist/
|-- application-1.0.jar
|-- conf/
    |-- app         


        

Answer 1

You need to use two plugins to accomplish this: maven-jar-plugin and maven-assembly-plugin.

Useful pom.xml samples:

• how make JAR executable and set manifest classpath
• how to exclude files from JAR file
• assembly plugin usage

(I would recommend you to separate the user-editable properties files to separate directory, but it is a matter of taste.)

Sample assembly configuration, to get you started:

  dist
  
    zip
  
  true
  dist
  
    
      lib
      runtime
    
  
  
    
      src/conf
      conf
    
    
      src/run
      
      
        *.sh
      
    
  
  
    
      src/run/run.sh
      
      0755