>> Off the top of my head the only viable idea I have is to deploy it in a zip
>> to the Maven repo and use dependency plugin to resolve and unpack before
>> assembly step.  Any caveats to that idea?
>
> None that I am aware of. This is the approach generally used for
> sharing configurations for Checkstyle etc across projects, so I think
> it makes sense to use in this case as well.

Make a standard JAR project, and put the descriptor in
src/main/resources/assemblies. (The 'assemblies' bit is important.)
Build.

Add that artifact as a plugin-level dependency of the assembly plugin
for your project.

Now, you can use it as a descriptorRef, just like jar-with-dependencies.

http://books.sonatype.com/maven-book/reference/assemblies.html#d0e16265
has step-by-step instructions.

- John

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