How to unzip arbitrary files using pom.xml in maven

Question

I have a zip file in the path "C: \ ptc \ Windchill_10.1 \ Windchill". Please someone tell me how to unzip this file using maven

Answer 1

Maven has a plugin for working with Ant. Using this plugin, you can create Ant-Tasks, these tasks are a sequence of xml instructions that you can use (almost) everything you need.

Part of the code you can use as inspiration:

<plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.8</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>generate-resources</phase> <configuration> <tasks> <echo message="unzipping file" /> <unzip src="output/inner.zip" dest="output/" /> </tasks> </configuration> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> 

source: https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/unzip.html

Answer 2

Maven has a plugin called dependency plugin that will help you deal with artifacts, you can check the documentation here

If you need to unpack dependencies and their transitive dependencies, look here

You can also take a look at the proposed solution here.