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

Assuming that the screen-shot shows the complete pom file, you are missing the entries that define the artifact. Try adding something like this following immediately after the tag:

  4.0.0
  com.mycompany.example
  stackoverflow-question
  0.0.1-SNAPSHOT

You should end up with stackoverflow-question-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar in your /target directory. You may need to refresh the directory to see it (You certainly have to in Eclipse)