Maven - Include dependent libs in jar without unpacking dependencies?

Question

We\'re trying to build a client jar that includes unpacked dependent jar\'s. And the manifest should have class-path entries to the dependent jars. T

Answer 1

Indeed, assembling using jar-with-dependencies causes maven to unpack all the dependencies as ${assembly.dependencySets.dependency.unpack} is set to true in the corresponding assembly descriptor.

A simple fix would be to provide an assembly descriptor similar to the jar-with-dependencies.xml and modify ${assembly.dependencySets.dependency.unpack} to false, like this:

EDIT: For an unknown reason, the behavior when using false is not exactly the same and it seems necessary to add / to the fileSet or you don't get the expected result.

  uberjar
  
    jar
  
  false
  
    
      false
      runtime
    
  
  
    
      ${project.build.outputDirectory}
      /