MAVEN PLUGIN(S) SERIES - support zip packaging
Purpose of series ... In my "day by day" experience as Java Architect, i'm involved in deep on processes concerning Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). We use Apache Maven as ingredient technology and we always dealing with need to find the best plugin (Mojo) that accomplish our requirements. So i've decided to share this experience providing a briefly description of most useful (or unusual) plugins discovered during my work. First One - ZIP Bundle Maven Plugin Description Typically a Maven user, to provide a zip as deliverable of his project, uses the famous maven assembly plugin The common approach is declare the packaging of the project as pom and invoke the assembly plugin, for zip creation and attachment it to the deploy phase. The ZIP Bundle Maven Plugin , allow us to continue using assembly plugin and also to declare the packaging as zip instead of pom. Usage The basic usage is shown below (f...