Building a runnable jar with Maven 2

Question

I\'m relatively new to the Maven mantra, but I\'m trying to build a command-line runnable jar with Maven. I\'ve setup my dependencies, but when I run mvn install

Answer 1

Maven is not packaging your dependencies inside your jar file, because you don't usually do this with Java programs.

Instead you deliver the dependencies together with your jar file and mention them in the Class-Path header of the Manifest.

To go this route, you'll need to enable the addClasspath property (documented here) for the maven-jar-plugin.

If you really want to include all your dependencies in your jar file, then you can use the Maven Assembly plugin to create a jar-with-dependencies.