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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 16:23:00 -0400
From: "Prasad Kashyap" <goyathlay.geronimo@gmail.com>
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Subject: Re: Assembling a Geronimo distribution in a m2 build - first look.
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The m-a-p is invoked twice for the following reasons:

When we copy some modules into a m2 repo structure format, it also
copies the META-INF/maven/.. directories. This unneccesary directory
introduces a very long path too. So in the first execution, we use the
<intermediaryAssembly> to skip the archive process. In the second
execution, we copy over the repo structure from the staging area but
exclude the META-INF/maven dirs into our geronimo/repository.


We are unpacking scripts in the first execution. I think it's
redundant. I'll remove it.

Cheers
Prasad


On 7/1/06, Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com> wrote:
> Why do we need to invoke the assembly plugin twice?  It does not look
> like there is anything in the steps you listed below that actually
> requires that the assembly plugin be invoked twice.  Maybe I am
> wrong, can you shed some light on this please?
>
> --jason
>
>
> > Here's how we assemble our binaries
> >
> > 1. Our pom.xml first lists all and only geronimo modules, configs and
> > apps as dependencies. The transitive deps are taken care of by m-a-p.
> >
> > 2. We first invoke the geronimo-assembly-plugin's "installConfig" goal
> > to install the configs into target/archive-temp/repository. This mojo
> > will try to install all dependencies of type "car" when no artifact is
> > explicitly specified. Since we have listed all configs as deps in our
> > j2ee-jetty-server pom.xml, they are installed.
> >
> > 3. Then we invoke m-a-p with assembly descriptor setup.xml and
> > intermediaryAssembly set to true.  The intermediaryAssembly set to
> > true will create the staging area but skip the final archive creation.
> > The setup.xml will copy all deps other than the <excludes> from
> > localRepository to target/archive-temp/repository. We exclude the
> > configs here b'coz the configs are installed in step 2 above. So now
> > we have the modules and the configs all in the same repo.
> >
> > 4. We also use this setup.xml to unpack the scripts module into the
> > staging area.
> >
> > 5. Then we invoke m-a-p again with assembly descriptor bin.xml. The
> > plugin copies the library jars, the schema files, the jars for bin
> > etc. The *.bat and *.sh files that we copied into the staging area  in
> > step 4 are now bundled into the archive but with correct mode and
> > lineendings..
> >
> > That's about it.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Prasad
>