Create the assembly.xml and call it from pom.xml.
assembly.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.0.0.xsd">
<id>assembly</id>
<formats>
<format>jar</format>
</formats>
<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<outputDirectory>product/template-topologies</outputDirectory>
<directory>${env.HOME}/workspace/src/main/java/topologies</directory>
<includes>
<include>*.topology</include>
<include>**/*.*.topology</include>
</includes>
<fileMode>744</fileMode>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
</assembly>
Main Pom.xml
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<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.5</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>your.group.id</groupId>
<artifactId>my-assembly-descriptor</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<!-- This is where we use our shared assembly descriptor -->
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>assembly.xml</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>