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  Features
  ---
  John Casey
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  12-May-2006

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Features

  The current version of this plugin can be found {{{project-summary.html}here}}.

  <NOTE: Features with no version information have been present since the first final release of the plugin.>

  * Inclusion of dependencies, modules <[2.1]>, file-sets, and individual files
  
  * Inclusion of project website documentation <[2.1]>
  
  * Flexible directory structures for assembly elements
  
  * All assembly inclusions controlled by include/exclude pattern sets

  * Option to unpack artifact files into the assembly

  * Project modules can be included as source files or in binary form <[2.1]>
  
  * Reusable assembly-descriptor components <[2.1]>
  
  * Supported archive formats include: zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, jar, dir, war
   (and any other format that the ArchiveManager has been configured for).

  
  * Directory-only assemblies
  
  * Filtering and line-ending conversion for file-sets and individual files
  
  * Directory and file attributes (<modes>) <[2.1]>
  
  * Artifact filename mapping with expression support <[2.1]>
  
  * Descriptor interpolation using current project and other assembly descriptor information <[2.1]>
  
  * Embedded Maven repository creation with artifact version alignment <[2.1]>
  
  * Security / signature information stripped from embedded artifacts prior to inclusion <[2.1]>
  
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