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 to have "jar" in packaging section of your pom.xml. You can add this before dependencies section:

**jar**

Then go to View -> Tool Windows -> Maven and in Maven window expand everything and double click on "package" in Lifecycle section.