Including dependencies in a jar with Maven

Question

Is there a way to force maven(2.0.9) to include all the dependencies in a single jar file?

I have a project the builds into a single jar file. I want the classes fro

Answer 1

My definitive solution on Eclipse Luna and m2eclipse: Custom Classloader (download and add to your project, 5 classes only) :http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.ui.git/plain/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/jar%20in%20jar%20loader/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/jarinjarloader/; this classloader is very best of one-jar classloader and very fast;

org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader my.Class

Edit in JIJConstants "Rsrc-Class-Path" to "Class-Path"
mvn clean dependency:copy-dependencies package
is created a jar with dependencies in lib folder with a thin classloader

    
        
            src/main/java
            
                **/*.java
                **/*.properties
            
        
        
            src/main/resources
            true
            
                **/*
            
            META-INF/
        
        
            ${project.build.directory}/dependency/
            
                *.jar
            
            lib/
        
    

        

            
                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-jar-plugin
                
                    
                        
                            true
                            ${project.mainClass}
                            lib/
                        

                        
                            ${project.realMainClass}  
                            ./
                        

                    
                
            

                org.apache.maven.plugins
                maven-dependency-plugin
                
                    
                        copy-dependencies
                        package
                        
                            copy-dependencies