Maven shade plugin adding dependency-reduced-pom.xml to base directory

Question

The maven shade plugin is creating a file called dependency-reduced-pom.xml and also artifactname-shaded.jar and placing them in the base directory.

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Answer 1

You can avoid having it created by setting createDependencyReducedPom to false.

e.g.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-shade-plugin
    ${maven-shade-plugin.version}
    
        false
    
    ....
    ....

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