assembly.xml

<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2" 
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd">

  <id>make-assembly</id>
  
  <formats>
    <!--
    <format>tar.gz</format>
    <format>tar.bz2</format>
    -->
    <format>zip</format>
  </formats>
  
  <fileSets>
  
    <!-- Include src folder -->
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</directory>
      <outputDirectory>/src</outputDirectory>
      <includes>
        <include>**/*</include>
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
    
    <!-- Include resource folder -->
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${project.build.resourceDirectory}</directory>
      <outputDirectory>/resources</outputDirectory>
      <includes>
        <include>**/*</include>
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
    
    <!-- Include test folder -->
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${project.build.testDirectory}</directory>
      <outputDirectory>/test</outputDirectory>
      <includes>
        <include>**/*</include>
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
    
    <!-- Include the created JAR file -->
    <fileSet>
      <directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
      <includes>
        <include>*.jar</include> <!-- ${project.build.finalName} -->
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
  
  </fileSets>

  <!-- Include individual files -->
  <files>
    <file>
      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>  
      <source>README.md</source>
      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
      <filtered>true</filtered>
    </file>
    <file>
      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
      <source>LICENSE</source>
      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
      <filtered>true</filtered>
    </file>
    <!-- Also include NOTICE, AUTHORS ... -->
  </files>
  
  
  <!-- =================================================================== -->
  <!-- Include third-party libs                                            -->
  <!-- =================================================================== -->
  
  <dependencySets>
  
    <dependencySet>
      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
      <unpack>false</unpack>
      <includes>
        <include>${artifact}</include>
      </includes>
    </dependencySet>
    
    <dependencySet>
      <outputDirectory>/lib</outputDirectory>
      <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
      <unpack>false</unpack>
      <excludes>
        <!-- <exclude>${artifact}</exclude> -->
        <exclude>y</exclude> <!-- Do not include the commercial graph drawing library yFiles! -->
      </excludes>
    </dependencySet>
    
  </dependencySets>

</assembly>