I had exactly the same problem. Switching from version 2.2-beta-5 to version 3.0.0 increased the runtime from 4.538 to 57.885 s!
The assembly descriptor is as follows:
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-2.0.0.xsd"> <id>jar-with-dependencies-compiled-scope</id> <formats> <format>jar</format> </formats> <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> <dependencySets> <dependencySet> <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory> <useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact> <unpack>true</unpack> <scope>compile</scope> </dependencySet> </dependencySets>
Another problem; The xml schema, which should be located at http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-2.0.0.xsd , is missing.
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