Create a single executable JAR from a Spring Based Java Application

Question

I have a spring based application that does a component/package scan looking for packages within a certain namespace. The application runs perfectly in Eclipse and I\'d like

Answer 1

I just had the very same problem than you today, with doing exactly the same steps :)

So thanks for your message, it makes me save some time and besides, i just want to quickly answer to your "Why it worked is still a mystery." sentence :

"This is because I have several Spring Jar in my dependencies. Some of the spring jars contain meta info files with the same name. To avoid that some meta files are overridden you have to merge it"

So this is why you need to add those two transformers to the maven snippet given into the Maven Shade Plugin documentation :

META-INF/spring.handlers

META-INF/spring.schemas

source : http://robert-reiz.com/2011/11/14/832/

Hope it helps for understanding ;)