title: Join together the artifacts and dependencies of several projects
body: <p>Under a common parent I have three Maven projects that are loosely related, and I must add the jars that all of these projects generate and their dependencies to a third party ear. For each of those three projects I have properly configurate de dependency:copy-dependencies goal.</p>
  
  <p>In order to have things as automated as possible, I want to join all the jars in a single location.</p>
  
  <p>An initial idea would be using an empty "joiner" project that depends on all of the previous three projects, and just use dependency:copy-dependencies on it. But I do not really like the idea of an empty project with its empty artifact, and I am wondering if there is a more standard way of doing this (ideally by copying the dependencies in a directory of the parent that does not need to be commited to version control) with the standard plugins.</p>