[JENA-1118] Bringing back the SDB assembly (zip/tarball distribution)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: Jena 3.0.1
• Fix Version/s: Jena 3.1.0
• Component/s: SDB
• Assignee: Osma Suominen
• Reporter: Osma Suominen
• Created: 15/Jan/16 08:08
• Updated: 14/May/16 09:51
• Resolved: 04/Feb/16 09:34

Description

I've been using the ancient jena-sdb-1.3.6 distribution but it's getting old. I wanted to have something newer to deploy to my server but compiling SDB using "mvn package" only builds the jar, not a full distribution with the command line scripts etc.

I noticed that the Maven assembly plugin configuration to do this was commented out from jena-sdb/pom.xml in commit 807f8bf on 16 Feb 2014 and later removed entirely. Maybe there was a good reason to do so, I don't know. The assembly.xml file has since bitrotted slightly since it references files that no longer exist.

In any case I'd like to have it back in working condition and I will open a PR shortly to do that.