maven embed dependency artifact code in jar

Question

I have a multi-module maven project. I have a main \"base-code\" module which creates a jar of all the compiled source code in my project.

I have another module,

Answer 1

What you are looking for is probably uber-jar: a single jar file with all embedded jar dependencies, the newly version of maven-assembly-plugin support this as one of the 4 pre-defined descriptor, check out here.

Try using maven-assembly-plugin replace your maven-jar-plugin like this:

<!-- Create single executable jar with all dependencies unpacked and embedded -->
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
      <archive>
        <manifest>
          <mainClass>com.myproject.Main</mainClass>
          <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
          <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
        </manifest>
      </archive>
      <descriptorRefs><descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef></descriptorRefs>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals><goal>single</goal></goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

Alternatively, you can also use maven-shade-plugin to do this.

Hope that helps.