I figured this one out.  It turns out it was the
maven-dependency-plugin that was causing the error not the war plugin.

-Dave

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:50 PM, David Hoffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a multi-module maven build, where one of the modules is just a
> pom type that aggregates a bunch of dependencies.  I reference this
> pom type module in two other modules.  One of the other modules has
> jar packaging and it works fine, the other has war packaging and it
> gives errors when I do an install.  Here is the error:
>
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO] Unknown archiver type
> Embedded error: No such archiver: 'pom'.
>
> I'm expecting the war plugin to read the pom type module, get all its
> dependencies, and add them to the war.  I realize I could change the
> pom type module to be a jar type but then its going to build an empty
> jar (cause I got no source) that I don't want.
>
> Am I doing something wrong or is there a bug in the war plugin?  I'm
> using 2.0.2 w/ maven 2.0.9.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> -Dave
>

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