Sometimes your build will contain other artifacts for a build other than the pom, a jar, etc. For example, you may wish to attach data-source configurations to that are meant to deploy along with your artifacts, or include other descriptor configurations like a features.xml file to be deployed into Fuse ESB aka ServiceMix. This makes it easier to use maven, or any other provisioning tool, to also grab the attached artifacts. To do this, use the build-helper-maven-plugin and the following configuration:
[xml]
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-artifacts</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>target/classes/features.xml</file>
<type>xml</type>
<classifier>features</classifier>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
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If you would like to also filter/tokenize the artifacts before attaching them, add the following resource plugin:
[xml]
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>filter</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
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