Maven Assembly Plugin - install the created assembly

Question

I have a project that simply consists of files. I want to package those files into a zip and store them in a maven repository. I have the assembly plugin configured to build t

Answer 1

I don't know wether this could be usefull for you, but as a JAR file is basically a ZIP file plus the META-INF information, you could create your project as a jar without sources and add the xip countents in src/main/resources without needing any plugin configuration.

If you want your content to be in a different location, you can always do something like:

  4.0.0
  com.mycompany.myzip
  myzip-artifact-id
  1.0-SNAPSHOT
  jar
  
    
      
        .
        false
        ${basedir}/zipcontent
        
          **/*
        
      
    
  

I f you want your artifact to be installed and being accessible in a repository you will need to set it up for the deploy phase:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/usage.html