Use Maven Assemblies for Packaging Configuration Artifacts
The maven assembly plugin can be used to generate separate artifacts for environment-specific configuration files. This is very useful to separate binaries (jar, war, etc.) from configuration (xml, properties files, etc.). This enables deployment of a binary across any environment. Reusable components are often used in several applications and processes and they often have configuration information. Your clients will want to customize the configuration for testing/altering behavior and it is critical that your build process separates binaries from configuration.
Here’s the snippet for adding the plugin in the POM file:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2-beta-2</version>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>test-assembly.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>zip</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Here’s an example packaging a zip:
<assembly>
<pre> <id>some-assembly-identifier</id>
<formats>
<format>zip</format>
</formats>
<includeBaseDirectory>true</includeBaseDirectory>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<outputDirectory><!--add folder--></outputDirectory>
<directory>${basedir}/target/classes</directory>
<includes>
<include>*.xml</include>
</includes>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
</assembly>
