Creating Two Executable Jars Using maven-assembly-plugin

Question

I have a Maven project and I want to create two executable jar files from it. One will be used interactively by users and a second will be run as a scheduled job that reads the

Answer 1

So as soon as I posted this, I found this thread:

Create multiple runnable Jars (with depencies included) from a single Maven project

This uses a different approach in that it doesn't use two profiles, it uses two executions, as such:

    maven-assembly-plugin
    2.4
    
        
            build-publisher
            
                false
                
                    
                        fully.qualified.path.Publisher
                    
                
                
                    jar-with-dependencies
                
                ${project.artifactId}
            
            package
            
                single
            
        
        
            build-logReader
            
                false
                
                    
                        fully.qualified.path.LogReader
                    
                
                
                    jar-with-dependencies
                
                ${project.artifactId}-logReader
            
            package
            
                single
            
        
    

This seems to be working. The moral of the story seems to be that I don't completely understand profiles or when they should be used.