I have config files and various documents that I want to copy from the dev environment to the dev-server directory using Maven2. Strangely, Maven does not seem strong at this task.
Some of the options:
- Simple use a copy task in Maven
<copy file="src/main/resources/config.properties" tofile="${project.server.config}/config.properties"/>
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Use the Ant plugin to execute copy from Ant.
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Construct an artifact of type zip, alongside the “main” artifact of the POM which is usually of type jar, then unpack that artifact from the repository into the target directory.
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maven-resources plugin, as mentioned below.
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Maven Assembly plugin — but this seems to require a lot of manual definitions, when I want to do things simply and “conventionally.”
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This page even shows how to build a plugin to do copying!
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maven-upload plugin, as mentioned below.
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maven-dependency-plugin with copy, as mentioned below.
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All these seem needlessly ad hoc: Maven is supposed to excel at doing these standard tasks without fuss and bother.
Any advice?
