With Maven, how can I build a distributable that has my project’s jar and all of the dependent jars?

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For a single module, I’d use an assembly looking like the following one (src/assembly/bin.xml):

<assembly>
  <id>bin</id>
  <formats>
    <format>tar.gz</format>
    <format>tar.bz2</format>
    <format>zip</format>
  </formats>
  <dependencySets>
    <dependencySet>
      <unpack>false</unpack>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
      <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
    </dependencySet>
  </dependencySets>
  <fileSets>
    <fileSet>
      <directory>src/main/command</directory>
      <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
      <includes>
        <include>*.sh</include>
        <include>*.bat</include>
      </includes>
    </fileSet>
  </fileSets>
</assembly>

To use this assembly, add the following configuration to your pom.xml:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      <descriptors>
        <descriptor>src/assembly/bin.xml</descriptor>
      </descriptors>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>single</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

In this sample, start/stop scripts located under src/main/command and are bundled into bin, dependencies are bundled into lib. Customize it to suit your needs.

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