What is the best way to avoid maven-jar?

Question

I am using a different plugin (ant4eclipse) to jar my files. What is the best way to avoid the maven-jar plugin from executing?

• I tried to remove the <plugin>maven-jar-plugin</plugin>
• I tried to <exclude> ** / * < / exclude>
• I tried to <skip>true</skip>

None worked

Answer 1

What happens if you declare this?

<packaging>pom</packaging>

Even if it does what you're looking for, be careful. I'm not sure if there could be negative side effects -- such as other maven projects that depend on your jar not being able to locate it.

Answer 2

I am using a different plugin to jar my files. What is the best way to avoid the maven-jar plugin from executing?

First, the jar:jar goal is bound by default on the package phase for a project with a packaging of type jar. Second, there is no way to unbind a plugin bound to a phase. So, if you are using another plugin(?), either accept to produce 2 JARs or change the packaging (but I don't think this will work well).

Answer 3

Explicitly bind the jar plugin to a phase that doesn't exist.

Answer 4

As other's have said, it's not possible to turn it off, other than using <packaging>pom</packaging>, which turns everything off and is probably not what you want.

Even though it will generate twice, a working solution is to bind your jar process to the package phase, as that is guaranteed to run after the default. By overwriting the same JAR file, you'll find that yours is used wherever the original would have been.