It looks like you have a pom project, but have declared to use the project's artifact. A pom project only have the pom artifact, so that might be the reason of the error message. Try declaring useProjectArtifact as false.
/Anders On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 22:43, jaybytez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks...I went through the example and created a bin.xml that represented > the jar-with-dependencies example. > > <assembly > xmlns=" > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > > xsi:schemaLocation=" > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 > http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd";> > <!-- TODO: a jarjar format would be better --> > <id>jar-with-dependencies</id> > <formats> > <format>jar</format> > </formats> > <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> > <dependencySets> > <dependencySet> > <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory> > <useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact> > <unpack>true</unpack> > <scope>runtime</scope> > </dependencySet> > </dependencySets> > </assembly> > > And it throws an error when I try this with a sample pom. > > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Building Cookbook :: generate-assembly > [INFO] task-segment: [package] > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] [site:attach-descriptor {execution: default-attach-descriptor}] > [WARNING] DEPRECATED [descriptor]: Please use descriptors instead > [INFO] [assembly:single {execution: default}] > [WARNING] Cannot include project artifact: > org.apache.maven.cookbook:generate-assembly:pom:1.0-SNAPSHOT; it doesn't > have an associated file or directory. > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Failed to create assembly: Error creating assembly archive > jar-with-dependencies: You must set at least one file. > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds > [INFO] Finished at: Tue Jan 11 13:42:25 PST 2011 > [INFO] Final Memory: 11M/28M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Any thoughts?....thanks...jay > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Tar-pom-xml-dependencies-Maven-Assembly-Plugin-tp3335797p3337379.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
