Building complete application folder with maven

Question

mostly all java standalone-applications end up in a folder looking like this after they are deployed to production.

myapp  
|->lib (here lay all dependenc         


        

Answer 1

This kind of deployment directory structure is very popular and have adopted by many brilliant apps like apache maven and ant.

Yes, we can achieve this by using maven-assembly-plugin at maven package phase.

Sample pom.xml:

  
  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-assembly-plugin
    2.2-beta-5
    
      
        package
        attached
      
    
    
      
        src/main/assembly/binary-deployment.xml
      
    
  

Sample binary-deployment.xml:

  bin
  
    tar.gz
  
  true
  
    
      src/main/java
      conf
      
        *.xml
        *.properties
      
    
    
      src/main/bin
      
      true
      755
    
    
      src/main/doc
      doc
      true
    
  
  
    
      lib
      true
      false
      runtime