How to distribute a multi-module maven project

Question

I would like to create a modular app that takes the following folder structure:

Sample directory structure:

main dir/---mainApp.jar /---plugins ---/module1.jar /module2.jar /etc.jar /etc_etc.jar

However, using maven, each module takes its own directory structure from the project root:

mvnmodularapp/mainApp/ /pom mvnmodularapp/module1/ /src /target/module1-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar mvnmodularapp/module12 /src /target/module2-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Is there a way that I can structure it in such a way that a user will only have to download the a mainApp.jar and then later on have the option of downloading more modules into a plugins folder adjacent to mainApp.jar?

Adriaan Koster · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-09 10:02:42Z

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You can use the maven-assembly-plugin to determine a custom build artifact.

edited Jan 9, 2017 at 10:02

answered Nov 18, 2015 at 9:58

Adriaan Koster

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