Creating a jar from a maven project in intellij

Question

I created a new maven project in IntelliJ and set packaging to jar but when I build it, the target folder does not contain a jar. I\'m sure its something really dumb on my p

Answer 1

You need the maven jar plugin in order to create a jar

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-jar-plugin
    
        
            
                true
                lib/
                add your main class
            
        
    

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/