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[11:50:22 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> instead of from the file system
[11:50:27 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> since that is the case you have
[11:50:40 CST(-0600)] <drewwills> i should add that when invoked on the child pom directly, in the submodule dir, it works perfectly fine
[11:50:44 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> if you run that goal on the overlay the only thing actually available are overlay local files
[11:50:55 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> and the -classes jar + jar dependencies of the overlayed WAR
[11:51:17 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so that plugin needs to be able to load that xml file from the classpath since it only exists in that -classes.jar