Resolving Izpack artifacts using maven dependency - maven-plugin

Question

I have Izpack installer which packs a pre-configured server and installs in target directory. This server is around 500Mb. Currently I have checked in this src/main/resources folder of installer maven project.But having this big server in git is making the git pulls very slow. So i am planning to keep this server as maven artifact in nexus and add its dependency to installer maven project. This way i can create a maven profile to pull this server from nexus on demand. I am yet to figure out how to copy this dependency to staging folder using a maven plugin(any help would be greatly appreciated). My question here, is it a right approach? or is there any better way to do this. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can use the maven dependency plugin to copy a dependeny to a specific folder.
You can use it to either copy all dependencies or even unpack those dependencies.
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unpack</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${izpack.staging}/content/ninjolibs</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>

Answer 2

This is what i did. I uploaded wso2.zip to nexus as zip artifact and configured pom.xml of my installer module to use this dependency.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-binaries</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>org.wso2</groupId>
<artifactId>wso2is</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0</version>
<type>zip</type>
<overWrite>true</overWrite>
<outputDirectory>src/main/resources/wso2/binary</outputDirectory>
<destFileName>wso2is-5.0.0.zip</destFileName>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>