Examples

Extracting a Few Files From an Archive

This operation will extract the jetty-assembly zip file. 

<extract-artifact>
  <artifact>org.mortbay.jetty:jetty-assembly:zip</artifact>
  <to>/opt/jetty</to>
  <excludes>
    <exclude>**/LICENSES/*</exclude>
  </excludes>
  <pattern>/jetty-7.0.0pre3(.*)</pattern>
  <replacement>$1</replacement>
</extract-artifact>

You will also need this dependency in your pom: 

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-assembly</artifactId>
  <version>7.0.0pre3</version>
  <type>zip</type>
</dependency>