I'm starting to work with Maven but am not yet successfully thinking in Maven's terms. I have a specific requirement and the docs aren't giving me enough clues, so I could use a bit of help:

I'd like to create an assembly that

  1. builds a jar-with-dependencies like the "standard" target of this name, but excluding a couple of the resources. I want log4j.properties and a couple of other configuration files to not be in the jar.

  2. builds a .ZIP file containing in its root directory the .jar from step 1 as well as the above mentioned config files.

I want to fire this assembly up from the command line (only), hence no need to tie to a phase (or goal? mojo?). Preferrably using either assembly:assembly or assembly:single.

  • Do I need a custom assembly descriptor for this?
  • And is it true I can't nest it in the pom.xml? So it goes in src/assembly/something.xml and gets referenced with a descriptorRef?
  • Can I code this as two relatively simple assemblies, of which one builds on the other (i.e. the .Zip assembly uses the .Jar assembly) or do I have to do everything in one assembly?
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