Producing executable jar in NetBeans

Question

I\'m using NetBeans 6.5 and for some reason it won\'t produce executable jar \"out of the box\".

I set my project to be the main project, defined main class in the p

Answer 1

If you are using the maven assembly plugin and want to build an executable jar with dependencies, you need to add this portion to the configuration of the maven-assembly-plugin section in your pom.xml:

  maven-assembly-plugin
  
    
    
      
        your.app.SampleClass
      
    
  

Source: Maven Assembly Plugin Usage