Maven shade plugin is not called automatically for goal “package”

Question

I\'ve spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to invoke Maven shade plugin to build a uber-jar (with all dependencies). Most of the google-able info that I found (includi

Answer 1

I have managed to reproduce your problem. In your pom.xml, you must have defined plugin like below,

<build>
<pluginManagement>
  <plugins>

    <plugin>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>2.4.3</version>
       <executions>
       <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
             <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
       </execution>
      </executions>
   </plugin>
   ....

  </plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>

instead of

<build>
 <plugins>
    <plugin>
       <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
       <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
       <version>2.4.3</version>
       <executions>
       <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
             <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
       </execution>
      </executions>
   </plugin>
 </plugins>
</build>

This will probably fix your problem.