1) A "working" assembly

druid-services/pom.xml

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
             <artifactId>druid-server</artifactId>
             <version>${project.parent.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-
     </dependencies>
     <build>
         <plugins>
@@ -64,6 +63,23 @@
                     </execution>
                 </executions>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>distro-assembly</id>
+                        <phase>package</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>single</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <descriptors>
+                                <descriptor>src/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
+                            </descriptors>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 </project>

druid-services/src/assembly/assembly.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<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">
+    <id>bin</id>
+    <formats>
+        <format>dir</format>
+    </formats>
+    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
+    <fileSets>
+        <fileSet>
+            <directory>src/bin</directory>
+            <includes>
+                <include>*.sh</include>
+            </includes>
+            <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+        </fileSet>
+    </fileSets>
+    <moduleSets>
+        <moduleSet>
+
+            <!-- Enable access to all projects in the current multimodule build! -->
+            <useAllReactorProjects>true</useAllReactorProjects>
+
+            <!-- Now, select which projects to include in this module-set. -->
+            <includes>
+                <include>com.metamx.druid:druid-server</include>
+                <include>com.metamx.druid:druid-indexer</include>
+                <include>com.metamx.druid:druid-realtime</include>
+            </includes>
+            <binaries>
+                <outputDirectory>modules/${artifactId}</outputDirectory>
+                <unpack>false</unpack>
+            </binaries>
+        </moduleSet>
+    </moduleSets>
+</assembly>

druid-services/src/bin/run.sh

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+echo "Hello World!"

pom.xml

@@ -414,6 +414,11 @@
                     <artifactId>antlr4-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>4.0</version>
                 </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.4</version>
+                </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
     </build>