Attached trivial patch makes an extra jar called flume-ng-log4jappender-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar show up in under lib.

Roman, thanks for the patch!

I wasn't sure about the Maven-fu to achieve this. However I wonder if the lib directory is the right place to put this? The bin/flume-ng script pulls in all the jars in lib/* for the agent classpath. People would need to know to delete this jar if they want to override certain other jar dependencies in their own deployments, just as one example of the confusion this could create.

Worth noting that I want to do a similar thing for some load testing tools that I have had lying around (but I also want that to be an executable jar). Anyway I think this should go in but I feel like we should create a special place for these little buggers.

Mike Percy had exact same concern once I submitted the patch – I think you're absolutely right it needs to go into its own location. How about a subdirectory called client? Would that work?

Also, if you want any other bits and piece of flume build to be hooked up to the similar magic – let me know – I'd be game implementing those.

Roman Shaposhnik, how about putting it into a directory called tools/bundles (or something similar). I am working on FLUME-1586 in which I plan to add an executable jar which does some integrity verification - we could have that go into the same directory as well.

The attached patch puts the fat jar into /tools and also fixes the issues with moduleSets not working quite properly.

+1. Looks good. Ran full build - all jars in expected directories.

Patch committed, rev: 1e66428c6414af8c83f24c810bd770c292f0fb5a. Thanks Roman!

Integrated in flume-trunk #416 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/flume-trunk/416/)
FLUME-2008. Create a fat jar for flume-ng-log4jappender. (Revision 1e66428c6414af8c83f24c810bd770c292f0fb5a)

Result = UNSTABLE
hshreedharan : http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/repo?p=flume.git&a=commit&h=1e66428c6414af8c83f24c810bd770c292f0fb5a
Files :

• flume-ng-dist/src/main/assembly/bin.xml
• flume-ng-dist/pom.xml
• pom.xml
• flume-ng-clients/flume-ng-log4jappender/pom.xml