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 Maven 2 Assembly Plugin 
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 Johnny R. Ruiz III
 <jruiz@exist.com>
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 September 20, 2005

Introduction

 This plugin is the Maven2 version of Maven1's Distribution Plugin.  
 
 This plugin provides the capability to create a binary distribution and source distribution.  
 Currently it can create distribution format such as: zip format, tar.bz, tar.gz2, jar format.
 The goal to do this is "assembly:assembly".

 It also provides the capability to extract all project dependencies on certain working directory.  
 The goal to do this is "assembly:unpack".

 To learn how to use the plugin, click {{{howto.html}here}}.