[MASSEMBLY-76] [assembly plugin] improve or clarify inheriting/reusing descriptors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2-beta-3
• Assignee: Dennis Lundberg
• Reporter: Jacob Robertson
• Created: 29/Mar/06 15:43
• Updated: 08/Apr/15 08:03
• Resolved: 03/Nov/08 12:21

Description

I want to declare a new reusable assembly descriptor. Then, in my parent pom I can reference that descriptor, and all children projects will be able to do assembly:assembly without specifying the descriptor. This actually works halfway, but then the assembly plugin can't find the descriptor - because it doesn't live inside of the child project. I was trying to play around with putting the descriptor in the parent project, but since the packaging has to be "pom" that of course wouldn't work.

Unless I misunderstand, the way this currently works, I'd have to declare the descriptor for each and every child project. Which would be very unfortunate, since the 3 supplied predefined descriptors don't meet my needs.

If there is a way to do this, then the improvement request is to improve the documentation for this since I couldn't figure it out...

Issue Links

• duplicates: MASSEMBLY-73 Sharing a default assembly descriptor across sub modules
• is related to: MASSEMBLY-151 Documentation for the assembly plugin is utterly confusing