maven exec:java run class file within jar

Question

I have my code packaged into a jar

The jar is packaged ok.

jar -tfv target/test-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

com/
com/codevalid/
com/codevalid/App.class
log4j.x         


        

Answer 1

Ok, this is what i finally ended up doing.
I built the jar using

mvn assembly:single

and used

java -jar ./target/App-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar com.codevalid.App

I did see an alternative where i could have used

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.codevalid.App"

But i was not sure how pass the name of the jar as a classpath