title: How to prevent Maven Webstart from building a zip file?
body: <p>I'm using Maven for my build cycle, including using the maven-webstart-plugin to generate a jnlp file. This process signs the jars and creates a jnlp from a template (which is great), but then also creates a zip file of all the signed jars and the jnlp file (which might be helpful, but I don't want).</p>
  
  <p>The docs for the maven-webstart-plugin aren't particularly comprehensive... 
  <a href="http://mojo.codehaus.org/webstart/webstart-maven-plugin/jnlp-mojos-overview.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mojo.codehaus.org/webstart/webstart-maven-plugin/jnlp-mojos-overview.html</a></p>
  
  <p>In fact, I found stackoverflow the best source for useful information - e.g.
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5195545/looking-for-webstart-maven-plugin-sample-application">Looking for Webstart Maven Plugin sample application</a></p>
  
  <p>There <em>seems</em> to be a way to do this in the maven-webstart-plugin configuration - e.g. (from the examples above):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;plugins&gt;
    &lt;plugin&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.mojo.webstart&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;webstart-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;configuration&gt;
        ...
        &lt;pack200&gt;true&lt;/pack200&gt;
        &lt;gzip&gt;true&lt;/gzip&gt; &lt;!-- default force when pack200 false, true when pack200 selected ?? --&gt;
        ...
      &lt;/configuration&gt;
    &lt;/plugin&gt;
  &lt;/plugins&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone know what the  tag does?</p>
  
  <p>I expected the &lt; gzip > tag to allow one to exclude the creation of the zip file by setting it to &lt; gzip > false &lt; /gzip >, but my testing of this suggests that's not the case. In indeed that is not the case, does anyone know what the &lt; gzip > tag does?</p>
  
  <p>Finally, if those aren't the relevant tags, is it possible to prevent the creation of the zip file? If so, how?</p>