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Pierre-Yves Ricau commented on MJAR-128: ---------------------------------------- This kind of functionality would be great! I think the maven-jar-plugin should provide the same behavior as the maven-war-plugin, and its "Maven WAR Overlay" method. See here : http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/war-overlay.html The common usage is basically : "oh I'd like to use this nice artifact, but hey it doesn't integrates well with XXX, let's patch it and create a new artifact". The great benefits would be having only a pom.xml and the patched files on a source repository, instead of committing the whole sources of the artifact. I am trying to achieve this kind of things with Maven Assembly Plugin, but it's a bit overkill, and quite hard to configure... > Add support for updating jar > ---------------------------- > > Key: MJAR-128 > URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MJAR-128 > Project: Maven 2.x Jar Plugin > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 2.2 > Reporter: David Hoffer > > As a user of the maven jar plugin I want to be able to modify/update existing > jars. For example, I want to replace a few class files in a jar and i want > to replace a few sources files in a sources jar artifact. Adding/removing > should also be supported. > This is a needed feature because for large jars, it takes to long to unpack > and re-jar. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira