[MJAR-139] New option to avoid empty jar creation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Roman Ivanov
• Created: 17/Oct/10 04:52
• Updated: 16/Feb/12 17:50
• Resolved: 24/Jan/12 14:23

Description

Usage of "test-jar" is beneficial for all project, as all of them have tests.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>test-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Pom artifacts and some jar artifacts does not have test and will never have them.
In logs we have: "[WARNING] JAR will be empty - no content was marked for inclusion!"
and empty and useless artifacts are created, deployed , ...

It will be convenient to have an plugin option to define whether skip empty jar creation and warning or generate jar with warning in log. Does it make sense ?

By default option will be FALSE, to comply with previous behavior.