In Maven, my dependencies are set up but I get a ClassNotFoundException when I run generated jar

Question

I was following along with the maven tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKu8_l5YiQ.

I created a maven project with the default archetype. Then I added the

Answer 1

When I first started using Maven, I had to provide some additional build "plugin"/"configuration" in order for the Jar to be built with the correct manifest file, including the class-path entry and the dependent jars included with the jar...

    
        
            maven-jar-plugin
            2.4
            
                
                    
                        true
                        
                        
                        
                        lib/
                        
                    
                
            
                
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-dependency-plugin
            2.1
            
                
                    copy-dependencies
                    package
                    
                        copy-dependencies
                    
                    
                        ${project.build.directory}/lib
                        false
                        false
                        true
                    
                
            
        
     
      org.apache.maven.plugins
      maven-compiler-plugin
      2.3.2
      
       
       
      
     
    

You might want to do some additional reading on some the flags/plugins. This is nearly a year old, so some may have been deprecated...