How to put all dependencies in separate folder for runnable jar?

Question

I\'m using mvn package to create a runnable jar with all dependencies packed inside, which runs fine. But I\'d prefer to have all external dependencies packed i

Answer 1

Use the maven-dependencies-plugin to specify an output directory for the copy-dependencies execution.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    2.5.1
    
      
        copy-dependencies
        package
        
        copy-dependencies
        
        
        ${project.build.directory}/lib/
        
      
    

Update:

To let the jar know where to find the lib folder, you can specify this as a Class-Path value in the manifest using the maven-jar-plugin

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-jar-plugin
    
    
        
        true
        lib/
        foo.bar.MainClass
        
    
    

Hope this helps.