configured build process to create a all in one zip file containing also

the native libraries for hdf5

src/main/assembly/assembly.xml

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+<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd">
+  
+  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
+    <id>bin</id>
+    <!-- Generates a zip package containing the needed files -->
+    <formats>
+        <format>zip</format>
+    </formats>
+
+    <fileSets>
+        <fileSet>
+        	<directory>src/main/assembly/lib</directory>
+            <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>**/*</include>
+            </includes>
+        </fileSet>
+        <!-- adds fat-jar assembled earlier to the root directory of zip package -->
+        <fileSet>
+            <directory>target</directory>
+            <outputDirectory>plugins</outputDirectory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>HDF5_Viewer*.jar</include>
+            </includes>
+        </fileSet>
+    </fileSets>
+</assembly>

src/main/assembly/assembly_jar.xml

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+<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0" 
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
+  <!-- TODO: a jarjar format would be better -->
+  <id>jar-with-dependencies</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>jar</format>
+  </formats>
+  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
+  <dependencySets>
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
+      <useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact>
+      <unpack>true</unpack>
+      <scope>runtime</scope>
+    </dependencySet>
+  </dependencySets>
+</assembly>