Maven generates duplicate pom.xml and pom.properties files in a jar

Question

I package my Maven-based Spring app with:

mvn install-DskipTests -Peverything. 

And something strange arises. In META-INF of generated jar,

Answer 1

Not sure what you mean by duplicate but the jar created by maven does come with pom.xml and pom.properties in META-INF folder. See this section of the maven getting started guide.