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Since Maven supports only standard files types such as JARs (.jar), WARs (.war), … there is no built-in support for FSMs (*.fsm) which are used by FirstSpirit as file suffix for archives with deployment descriptor.

First, the Maven package type for FSMs wants to fix that by making FSMs first-class citizen by extending Maven with an own package type called fsm so that the full Maven life cycle is supported (pom.xml):

<project>
    ...
    <packaging>fsm</packaging>
    ...
    <build>
        ...   
        <plugins>
            
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.github.zaplatynski</groupId>
                <artifactId>fsm-packagetype</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.0</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
            </plugin>
            
             <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <attach>false</attach>
                    <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                    <descriptors>
                        <descriptor>src/assembly/fsm.xml</descriptor>
                    </descriptors>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            ...
        </plugins>    
    </build>
    ...
</project>

Second, there is support to use Maven’s dependency resolution to create FSM’s deployment descriptor called module.xml to list all the transitive libraries which are used.

More information

How to use the Maven package type for FSMs is documented in the GitHub repository at github.com/zaplatynski/fsm-packagetype.

Help, bugs and feature requests

Please file any request for help, bug or feature request at github.com/zaplatynski/fsm-packagetype/issues.

Download

The FirstSpirit module package type is available at Maven Central.

Disclaimer

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