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<h1>Maven2 AAR Plug-in Guide</h1>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>This plugin generates an Axis 2 service file (AAR file).</p>
<p><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html"
target="_blank">[Download Plugin Tool]</a></p>
<h2>Goals</h2>
<p>The AAR plugin allows the packaging of an Axis 2 service aar in 3
different modes:</p>
<ol>
<li><b>aar (default)</b>: generates the aar artifact</li>
<li><b>inplace</b> : package the aar in the source tree</li>
<li><b>exploded</b> : package an exploded aar application</li>
</ol>
<p>Each mode is materialized by a goal. For instance, to generate an exploded
aar from the current project, one would type</p>
<pre>mvn aar:exploded</pre>
<h2>Configuration</h2>
<p>All AAR plugin goals takes the following configuration parameters as
input:</p>
<table border="2">
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<td><strong>Parameter Name</strong></td>
<td><strong>Default Value</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
</tr>
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<td>aarDirectory</td>
<td>${project.build.directory}/aar</td>
<td>Directory where the aar file is built</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>classesDirectory</td>
<td>${project.build.outputDirectory}</td>
<td>Directory with compiled classes and resources</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>fileSets</td>
<td></td>
<td>Additional file sets, which are being added to the archive. See "<a
href="#file_sets">File Sets</a>" below for an example</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>servicesXmlFile</td>
<td></td>
<td>Location of the services.xml file. By default, it is assumed that
the file is already present in classesDirectory/META-INF and no
special processing is required</td>
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<tr>
<td>wsdlFile</td>
<td></td>
<td>Location of the WSDL file. By default, it is assumed that the file
is already present in classesDirectory/META-INF and no special
processing is required</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>wsdlFileName</td>
<td>service.wsdl</td>
<td>Name, to which the WSDL file should be mapped</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3>The aar Goal</h3>
<p>The aar goal allows the following additional parameters:</p>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Parameter Name</strong></td>
<td><strong>Default Value</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>outputDirectory</td>
<td>${project.build.directory}</td>
<td>Directory where to generate the AAR file</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>aarName</td>
<td>${project.build.finalName}</td>
<td>The generated AAR files name</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>archive</td>
<td></td>
<td>A Maven archive configuration. This allows, for example, to
configure the MANIFEST.MF file</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>classifier</td>
<td></td>
<td>A classifier, which should be added to the generated AAR files
name. Setting this parameter has the side effect, that the artifact
is treated as an attachment and not as the projects primary
artifact</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>primaryArtifact</td>
<td>true</td>
<td>Setting this property to false disables installation or deployment
of the artifact as the projects primary artifact</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<a name="file_sets"></a>
<h3>File Sets</h3>
<p>Additional file sets may be configured for inclusion into the AAR file. A
file set looks as follows:</p>
<pre>
&lt;fileSets&gt;
&lt;fileSet&gt;
&lt;directory&gt;src/aar/files&lt;/directory&gt;
&lt;outputDirectory&gt;META-INF/docs&lt;/outputDirectory&gt;
&lt;includes&gt;
&lt;include&gt;**/*.html&lt;/include&gt;
&lt;/includes&gt;
&lt;/fileSet&gt;
&lt;fileSet&gt;
&lt;directory&gt;src/aar/files&lt;/directory&gt;
&lt;outputDirectory&gt;META-INF/etc&lt;/outputDirectory&gt;
&lt;excludes&gt;
&lt;exclude&gt;**/*.html&lt;/exclude&gt;
&lt;/excludes&gt;
&lt;/fileSet&gt;
&lt;/fileSets&gt;
</pre>
<p>The example specifies, that the contents of the directory src/aar/files
shall be added to the AAR file. HTML files will go into META-INF/docs, all
other files to META-INF/etc.</p>
<p>A file set is configured through the following configuration
parameters:</p>
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<tr>
<td><strong>Parameter Name</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>directory</td>
<td>The directory, from which to read the file set. This parameter is
required</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>outputDirectory</td>
<td>The target directory within the AAR file. Defaults to the AAR files
root directory</td>
</tr>
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<td>includes</td>
<td>Configures the set of files, which shall be included into the AAR
file. Defaults to **/*</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>excludes</td>
<td>Configures a set of files, which shall be excluded from the file
set. Defaults to the Maven default excludes (**/*~, **/cvs/**/*,
**/.svn/**/*, etc.)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>skipDefaultExcludes</td>
<td>If this parameter is set to true, then no default excludes are
being used</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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