Maven 2.x Exec Plugin

Brett, you want a way to execute a jar and not a class ?

If so, do you want something like:

mvn exec:java -Djar=groupId:artifactId

or

mvn exec:java -Djar=/path/to/my/jar

both ?

I will guess that we need something like:

mvn exec:java -DjarArtifact=/path/to/my/jar

and

mvn exec:java -Djar=groupId:artifactId

can the one watching this issue give some feedback ?

Why can't you simply:

if (jar != null) {
if (jar.indexOf(":") > 0) { parseGAVThenRun(jar); } else {
File jarAbsolute;
File jarFile = new File(jar);
if (jarFile.isAbsolute()) { jarAbsolute = jarFile; }
else { jarAbsolute = new File(basedir, jar); }

runManifestMain(jarAbsolute);
}
}

This may seem like a lot of effort to automatically detect what the user is trying to do, but I think it makes this plugin path quite a bit nicer.