Maven 2 - Include webstart .jar into .war - not in /WEB-INF/lib

[Dave Boden]

Maven 2.

I've produced a client jar to be downloaded and run in WebStart. Let's call it client.jar. groupId=myapp artifactId=client

I have another project groupId=myapp artifactId=webapp. This generates a .war file. I want to tell the war plugin to add the client.jar file to the root of the .war package. I don't want to add a <dependency> on the client.jar because this means that it will end up in /WEB-INF/lib. It shouldn't be on the server's classpath... so I don't want it in the lib directory.

I would have thought this was a very general requirement for anyone deploying a WebStart web application using Maven? Is there a way that I can order the war plugin to do the required bundling?

[Dave Boden]

The solution involved using the Maven assembly plugin inside the war project.