How to package a Maven project in zip file with jar files inside

Question

Small introduction

I'm pretty new in maven and I face with the problem. The structure of my project looks like this:

|--root |--bin |-- some bash scripts |--config |-- some .properties files |--j2ee-apps |-- some web related files |--META-INF |-- MANIFEST.MF |--src |-- main |-- java |-- test |-- java

Goal

After executing mvn package I have to get the .zip file with following structure:

|--zip |--bin |-- some bash scripts |--config |-- config.jar <-- jar with all .properties files inside |--j2ee-apps |-- some web related files |--META-INF |-- MANIFEST.MF |--lib |-- classes.jar <-- jar with all .class files inside (from src folder)

I've tried to use maven-assembly-plugin, but I didn't find examples that suit me.

Answer 1

Your assembly.xml should looks like

<assembly>
     <id>zip</id>
     <formats>
       <format>zip</format>
     </formats>
    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
    <dependencySets>
     <dependencySet>
      <unpack>false</unpack>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
      <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
      <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
     </dependencySet>
   </dependencySets>
   <fileSets>
    <fileSet>
     <directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
     <outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
     <includes>
       <include>*.jar</include>
     </includes>
    </fileSet> 
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${project.basedir}/bin</directory>
      <outputDirectory>/bin</outputDirectory>
      <filtered>true</filtered>
      <includes>
        <include>**/*.*</include>
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
    <!-- add fileSet entries for other folders under root -->
  </fileSets>
</assembly>

I'm not sure if there any way to put META-INF just under zip not inside your project's jar file.

To change name of you jar you need maven-jar-plugin

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.2</version>
  <configuration>
    <finalName>new_jar_name</finalName>                   
  </configuration>
</plugin>