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| -rw-r--r-- | maven-plugins/trunk/maven-zip-plugin/README | 25 |
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diff --git a/maven-plugins/trunk/maven-zip-plugin/README b/maven-plugins/trunk/maven-zip-plugin/README index dfe71b51ab..67fb9c1319 100644 --- a/maven-plugins/trunk/maven-zip-plugin/README +++ b/maven-plugins/trunk/maven-zip-plugin/README @@ -1,6 +1,19 @@ This module is a Maven plugin which supports using a packaging of zip in a pom.xml to create a zip format SCA contribution. +The main difference between an SCA zip and jar contribution is that a zip contribution supports +nesting jar's within the zip and having those nested jar's available within the classloader +of the contribution. This enables packaging application classes and any 3rd party jars they +depend on together in one contribution. + +The zip plugin builds a zip archive of the project and includes any dependency jars used by +the project inside the zip in a folder name "lib" + +TODOs: +- make the "lib/" folder where the dependent jars go configurable +- make which dependencies get included configurable + (currently its those with compile or runtime scope) + An example pom.xml: <packaging>zip</packaging> ... @@ -16,10 +29,17 @@ An example pom.xml: </plugins> </build> + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Tuscany module includes much code copied from the Maven WAR plugin 2.0.2 written by the Apache Maven team. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + -To build, from the top maven-zip-plugin directory run maven: +Building and releasing the plugin +--------------------------------- + +From the top maven-zip-plugin directory run maven: mvn @@ -76,6 +96,3 @@ After a successfule vote copy the staging artifacts to the live repository, eg: cp -p -v -R maven-zip-plugin-alpha1/org/apache/tuscany/maven/plugins/ /x1/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository/org/apache/tuscany/maven/plugins - - - |