Maven 2 assembly with dependencies: jar under scope "system" not included.
- by YuppieNetworking
Hello,
I am using maven-assembly plugin to create a jar of my application, including its dependencies as follows:
<assembly>
<id>macosx</id>
<formats>
<format>tar.gz</format>
<format>dir</format>
</formats>
<dependencySets>
<dependencySet>
<includes>
<include>*:jar</include>
</includes>
<outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
</dependencySet>
</dependencySets>
</assembly>
(I omitted some other stuff that is not related to the question)
So far this has worked fine because it creates a lib directory with all dependencies. However, I recently added a new dependency whose scope is system, and it does not copy it to the lib output directory. i must be missing something basic here, so I call for help.
The dependency that I just added is:
<dependency>
<groupId>sourceforge.jchart2d</groupId>
<artifactId>jchart2d</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${project.basedir}/external/jchart2d-3.1.0.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
The only way I was able to include this dependency was by adding the following to the assembly element:
<files>
<file>
<source>external/jchart2d-3.1.0.jar</source>
<outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
</file>
</files>
However, this forces me to change the pom and the assembly file whenever this jar is renamed, if ever. Also, it seems just wrong.
I have tried with <scope>runtime</scope> in the dependencySets and <include>sourceforge.jchart2d:jchart2d</include> with no luck.
So how do you include a system scoped jar to your assembly file in maven 2?
Thanks a lot
