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<faqs id="FAQ" title="Frequently Asked Questions">
<part id="General">
<faq id="deploy">
<question>If the Assembly Plugin is run during the package phase, do my assemblies get deployed during the deploy phase?</question>
<answer>
<p>Yes. The assemblies created by the Assembly Plugin is attached to your project so it gets deployed too.</p>
</answer>
</faq>
<faq id="classifier">
<question>Can I use an artifact created by the assembly plugin as a dependency?</question>
<answer>
<p>Yes. You can refer to it using the id of the assembly as the dependency classifier.</p>
</answer>
</faq>
<faq id="javadoc">
<question>How do I use the Assembly Plugin to package my project's javadoc files?</question>
<answer>
<p>The Javadoc Plugin can generate the javadoc files of your projects. Also, the Javadoc Plugin can package them!</p>
<p>Please see the <a href="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/">Javadoc Plugin Documentation</a>.</p>
</answer>
</faq>
</part>
<part id="Artifact and Directory Formatting">
<faq id="dashClassifier">
<question>
I have a dependencySet that includes some artifacts with classifiers, and others without classifiers.
How can I setup the file mappings to handle both cases appropriately?
</question>
<answer>
<p>
The best way to handle a mixed bag of dependencies with and without classifiers is to use the
<b>${dashClassifier?}</b> expression, added in version 2.2-beta-2 of the assembly plugin especially
for this purpose. This expression will determine whether each artifact has a classifier, and if it
does, it will substitute the artifact's classifier - prepended by a dash - in place of the expression.
</p>
<p>
For example, suppose you want to include two artifacts, commons-logging-1.0.4.jar, and
yourserver-1.0-client.jar (where 'client' is the classifier of the second artifact). To do this,
simply add the following to your dependencySet:
</p>
<pre>
&lt;outputFileNameMapping&gt;${artifact.artifactId}-${artifact.version}${dashClassifier?}.${artifact.extension}&lt;/outputFileNameMapping&gt;
</pre>
</answer>
</faq>
</part>
</faqs>