Excluding the pom.xml from a maven jar

To prevent Maven 2 adding the pom.xml file to your generated jar (you may not want to distribute build information, SCM information, storepass details etc) you can do the following:

<plugin>

  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

  <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>

  ...

  <configuration>


     ...

     <archive>

       <addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>

     <archive>

     ...

  </configuration>

</plugin>

(from http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1598)