Use the dependency plugin to unpack the tomcat distribution, then
selectively include files in the assembly descriptor that you want to
reuse.

Cheers,
Brett

2008/8/23 Beyer,Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm using the assembly plugin to generate a few archives for distribution. 
> I'd like to be able to download an existing archive (zip, tar.gz) and extract 
> some of its contents and then include it in an assembly. Does anyone have 
> suggestions on how to go about this?
>
> For example, download a tomcat distribution, extract the contents, remove all 
> existing files/dirs in 'webapps' and then add a war file and create an 
> assembly of the results.
>
> I suspect that I'm getting beyond the boundaries of Maven and should just 
> move to creating Ant scripts for these application distributions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
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