maven - Full search and replace of strings in source files when copying resources

Question

I have some java source files that use a package prefix (they are emulating some JDK classes). I use these files with the prefix to run against some unit tests. If the tests pass I want to produce a jar that contains the source files but with the package prefix removed from all the java files.

I am using maven for builds. Does any one know of a way to do this? Essentially what I want is something like the resources plugin filtering feature, but that does proper search and replace (like: s/my.package.prefix.//g), rather than filtering on ${vars}.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2196394/full-search-and-replace-of-strings-in-source-files-when-copying-resources

Answer 1

You can also use

http://code.google.com/p/maven-replacer-plugin/

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