Building a fat jar using maven

Question

I have a code base which I want to distribute as jar. It also have dependency on external jars, which I want to bundle in the final jar.

I heard that this can be do

Answer 1

An alternative is to use the maven shade plugin to build an uber-jar.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-shade-plugin
     Your Version Here 
    
            
    
    
            
                    package
                    
                            shade