Maven creating flat zip assembly

Question

To Maven gurus out there: I\'m trying to package non-java project artifacts (.NET) into a single zip file. I\'m having 2 problems:

If I change packaging in my POM to

Answer 1

As you've seen, there isn't a zip packaging type, so it makes sense to use pom packaging as you've chosen to.

You've encountered a bit of a hole in the assembly plugin's processing. You could resolve this by specifying multiple fileSets in the assembly with /, one for each directory you want to include, this is obviously a PITA, and probably not an acceptable solution.

An alternative approach is to use the Ant copy task to copy all the DLLs into a staging directory, then include that directory in the assembly.

The following configuration should do what you're after:

The antrun-plugin configuration:

  
    maven-antrun-plugin
    1.3
    
      
        process-resources
        
          
            
              
                
                
              
              
            
          
        
        
          run
        
      
    
  

The assembly:

 
  bin
  
    zip
  
  
    
      ${project.build.directory}/dll-staging
      /
      
        *.dll
        *.pdb