Build once and share it offline
In Maven, you can build your project only once and get a JAR file fully packed with all dependencies. So that, you can share this JAR to other machines off-line.
Below are the steps to make it.
- First update your pom.xml with the below setting
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.thanga.MyTest[REPLACE WITH YOUR MAIN CLASS]</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
- Package your project with the goal
package assembly:single
as shown below
In console,
mvn package assembly:single
In eclipse,
- Run this and you can get the two JAR files. One of them
MyFullPack-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar
has the full
dependencies loaded.
- You can open the JAR to see the dependencies are packed as shown below.
- You can share this JAR to other machines off-line without any more build