[tycho-user] Attaching additional artifacts with eclipse-feature packaging

To do that we have several plugins that are grouped as an eclipse-feature. In order to build a war for the application we added an ant step in the feature pom.xml that creates the war from the eclipse-feature result (target/site/plugins) and attach this as an artifact using build-helper-maven-plugin.

Then we need to bundle this war + the content of the documentation zip artifact into a zip file.

To create this zip file I need to create a maven module that depends on the zip and war artifact.

However it fails to resolve the dependency to the war artifact.

When executing with -X. I see a line "Could not find metadata myGroup:war.feature:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml"

And when I look in my local repository file it seems that there is no metadata file in the myGroup/war.feature/ folder.

Is it a limiation of the feature packaging that prevents me from attaching artifacts? How can I achieve a similar goal?

Here are the extracts from the pom files

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pom.xml for feature looks something like this.

pom.xml of the project building the final zip
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
ÂÂÂ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
ÂÂÂ <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
ÂÂÂ <packaging>pom</packaging>
ÂÂÂ <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
ÂÂÂ <artifactId>packaging</artifactId>
ÂÂÂ <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
ÂÂÂ <dependencies>
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ <dependency>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <artifactId>war.feature</artifactId>ÂÂÂ
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <type>war</type>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ </dependency>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <dependency>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <artifactId>documentation</artifactId>ÂÂÂ
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ <type>zip</type>
ÂÂÂ ÂÂÂ </dependency>