[NPANDAY-518] Packaging for .NET Applications (Non-Web, also Azure Worker Roles)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0-incubating
• Component/s: Maven Plugins
• Assignee: Lars Corneliussen
• Reporter: Lars Corneliussen
• Created: 29/Dec/11 08:11
• Updated: 05/Jan/12 15:01
• Resolved: 05/Jan/12 15:01

Description

Add a new packaging type and plugins for creating "runnable" packages of .NET Applications.

Theese should by default include:

• Main artifact (dll or exe)
• Configuration file (app.config, modifiable through XDT?)
• transitive dependencies (runtime scope)
• further user-defined files

Current plan is to introduce a new ArtifactType:

    /**
     * A zip containing everything an application (or library) needs
     * to be run, including transitive dependencies and so on.
     */
    DOTNET_APPLICATION("dotnet-application", null, "app.zip"),

But we could also use the existing DOTNET_ARCHIVE with ending "zip".

Then this configuration for a new plugin would enable the packaging:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.npanday.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>application-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>prepare-package</goal>
              <goal>package</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>