I want to package my project in a single executable JAR for distribution.
How can I make a Maven project package all dependency JARs into my output JAR?
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I went through every one of these responses looking to make a fat executable jar containing all dependencies and none of them worked right. The answer is the shade plugin, its very easy and straightforward.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<!-- Run shade goal on package phase -->
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<transformers>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>path.to.MainClass</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Be aware that your dependencies need to have a scope of compile or runtime for this to work properly.
Something that have worked for me was:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unpack-dependencies</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/classes</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unpack-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
<mainClass>SimpleKeyLogger</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I had extraordinary case because my dependency was system one:
<dependency>
..
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/myjar.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
I have changed the code provided by @user189057 with changes: 1) maven-dependency-plugin is executed in "prepare-package" phase 2) I am extracting unpacked classess directly to "target/classes"
See executable-jar-with-maven-example (GitHub)
Those pros and cons are provided by Stephan.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.lib</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>${project.build.finalName}.lib/</classpathPrefix>
<mainClass>${fully.qualified.main.class}</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
At this point the jar is actually executable with external classpath elements.
$ java -jar target/${project.build.finalName}.jar
The jar file is only executable with the sibling ...lib/ directory. We need to make archives to deploy with the directory and its content.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>antrun-archive</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target>
<property name="final.name" value="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}"/>
<property name="archive.includes" value="${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging} ${project.build.finalName}.lib/*"/>
<property name="tar.destfile" value="${final.name}.tar"/>
<zip basedir="${project.build.directory}" destfile="${final.name}.zip" includes="${archive.includes}" />
<tar basedir="${project.build.directory}" destfile="${tar.destfile}" includes="${archive.includes}" />
<gzip src="${tar.destfile}" destfile="${tar.destfile}.gz" />
<bzip2 src="${tar.destfile}" destfile="${tar.destfile}.bz2" />
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Now you have target/${project.build.finalName}.(zip|tar|tar.bz2|tar.gz) which each contains the jar and lib/*.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>${fully.qualified.main.class}</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You have target/${project.bulid.finalName}-jar-with-dependencies.jar.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
<transformers>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>${fully.qualified.main.class}</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You have target/${project.build.finalName}-shaded.jar.
<plugin>
<!--groupId>org.dstovall</groupId--> <!-- not available on the central -->
<groupId>com.jolira</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<mainClass>${fully.qualified.main.class}</mainClass>
<attachToBuild>true</attachToBuild>
<!-- https://code.google.com/p/onejar-maven-plugin/issues/detail?id=8 -->
<!--classifier>onejar</classifier-->
<filename>${project.build.finalName}-onejar.${project.packaging}</filename>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>one-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<classifier>spring-boot</classifier>
<mainClass>${fully.qualified.main.class}</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You have target/${project.bulid.finalName}-spring-boot.jar.
To resolve this issue we will use Maven Assembly Plugin that will create the JAR together with its dependency JARs into a single executable JAR file. Just add below plugin configuration in your pom.xml file.
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.your.package.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-my-jar-with-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
After doing this don’t forget to run MAVEN tool with this command mvn clean compile assembly:single
It should be like that:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unpack-dependencies</id>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Unpacking have to be in generate-resources phase because, if in package phase, will not be included as resources. Try clean package and you'll see.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
<configuration>
<!-- get all project dependencies -->
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Taking Unanswered's answer and reformatting it, we have:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Next, I would recommend making this a natural part of your build, rather than something to call explicitly. To make this a integral part of your build, add this plugin to your pom.xml and bind it to the package lifecycle event. However, a gotcha is that you need to call the assembly:single goal if putting this in your pom.xml, while you would call 'assembly:assembly' if executing it manually from the command line.
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-my-jar-with-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
[...]
</plugins>
[...]
</build>
</project>
The maven-assembly-plugin worked great for me.
I spent hours with the maven-dependency-plugin and couldn't make it work. The main reason was that I had to define in the configuration section explicitly the artifact items which should be included as it is described in the documentation.
There is an example there for the cases when you want to use it like: mvn dependency:copy, where there are not included any artifactItems but it doesn't work.
This is the best way i found:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.myDomain.etc.MainClassName</mainClass>
<classpathPrefix>dependency-jars/</classpathPrefix>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/dependency-jars/
</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
With this configuration, all dependencies will be located in /dependency-jars. My application has no Main class, just context ones, but one of my dependencies do have a Main class (com.myDomain.etc.MainClassName) that starts the JMX server, and receives a start or a stop parameter. So with this i was able to start my application like this:
java -jar ./lib/TestApp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar start
I wait it be useful for you all.
I tried the most up-voted answer here, and was able to get the jar runnable. But the program didn't run correctly. I do not know what the reason was. When I try to run from Eclipse, I get a different result but when I run the jar from command-line I get a different result (it crashes with a program-specific runtime error).
I had a similar requirement as the OP just that I had too many (Maven) dependencies for my project. Fortunately, the only solution that worked for me was that using Eclipse. Very simple and very straightforward. This is not a solution to the OP but is a solution for someone who has a similar requirement but with many Maven dependencies,
1) Just right-click on your project folder (in Eclipse) and select Export
2) Then select Java -> Runnable Jar
3) You will be asked to choose the location of the jar file
4) Finally, select the class that has the Main method that you want to run and choose Package dependencies with the Jar file and click Finish
This could also be an option,You will be able to build your jar file
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- Build an executable JAR -->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
<mainClass>WordListDriver</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
To create an executable JAR from command line itself just run the below command from the project path:
mvn assembly:assembly
For anyone looking for options to exclude specific dependencies from the uber-jar, this is a solution that worked for me:
<project...>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-core_2.11</artifactId>
<version>1.6.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope> <=============
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>...</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
So it's not a configuration of the mvn-assembly-plugin but a property of the dependency.
You can add the following to your pom.xml:
<build>
<defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.mycompany.package.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.mycompany.package.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-my-jar-with-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Afterwards you have to switch via the console to the directory, where the pom.xml is located. Then you have to execute mvn assembly:single and then your executable JAR file with dependencies will be hopefully build. You can check it when switching to the output (target) directory with cd ./target and starting your jar with a command similiar to java -jar mavenproject1-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar.
I tested this with Apache Maven 3.0.3.
Problem with locating shared assembly file with maven-assembly-plugin-2.2.1?
Try using descriptorId configuration parameter instead of descriptors/descriptor or descriptorRefs/descriptorRef parameters.
Neither of them do what you need: look for the file on classpath. Of course you need adding the package where the shared assembly resides on maven-assembly-plugin's classpath (see below). If you're using Maven 2.x (not Maven 3.x), you may need adding this dependency in top-most parent pom.xml in pluginManagement section.
See this for more details.
Class: org.apache.maven.plugin.assembly.io.DefaultAssemblyReader
Example:
<!-- Use the assembly plugin to create a zip file of all our dependencies. -->
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptorId>assembly-zip-for-wid</descriptorId>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>cz.ness.ct.ip.assemblies</groupId>
<artifactId>TEST_SharedAssemblyDescriptor</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
Use the maven-shade-plugin to package all dependencies into one uber-jar. It can also be used to build an executable jar by specifying the main class. After trying to use maven-assembly and maven-jar , I found that this plugin best suited my needs.
I found this plugin particularly useful as it merges content of specific files instead of overwriting them. This is needed when there are resource files that are have the same name across the jars and the plugin tries to package all the resource files
See example below
<plugins>
<!-- This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactSet>
<!-- signed jars-->
<excludes>
<exclude>bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15</exclude>
</excludes>
</artifactSet>
<transformers>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<!-- Main class -->
<mainClass>com.main.MyMainClass</mainClass>
</transformer>
<!-- Use resource transformers to prevent file overwrites -->
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>properties.properties</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.XmlAppendingTransformer">
<resource>applicationContext.xml</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/cxf/cxf.extension</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.XmlAppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/cxf/bus-extensions.xml</resource>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
You could combine the maven-shade-plugin and maven-jar-plugin.
maven-shade-plugin packs your classes and all dependencies in a single jar file.maven-jar-plugin to specify the main class of your executable jar (see Set Up The Classpath, chapter "Make The Jar Executable").Example POM configuration for maven-jar-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.example.MyMainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Finally create the executable jar by invoking:
mvn clean package shade:shade
Another option if you really want to repackage the other JARs contents inside your single resultant JAR is the Maven Assembly plugin. It unpacks and then repacks everything into a directory via <unpack>true</unpack>. Then you'd have a second pass that built it into one massive JAR.
Another option is the OneJar plugin. This performs the above repackaging actions all in one step.
You can use maven-dependency-plugin, but the question was how to create an executable JAR. To do that requires the following alteration to Matthew Franglen's response (btw, using the dependency plugin takes longer to build when starting from a clean target):
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unpack-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/target/dependency</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
You can use the dependency-plugin to generate all dependencies in a separate directory before the package phase and then include that in the classpath of the manifest:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
<overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
<overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots>
<overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
<mainClass>theMainClass</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Alternatively use ${project.build.directory}/classes/lib as OutputDirectory to integrate all jar-files into the main jar, but then you will need to add custom classloading code to load the jars.
There are millions of answers already, I wanted to add you don't need <mainClass> if you don't need to add entryPoint to your application. For example APIs may not have necessarily have main method.
<build>
<finalName>log-enrichment</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
mvn clean compile assembly:single
ll target/
total 35100
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 Sep 29 16:25 ./
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 4096 Sep 29 16:25 ../
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 0 Sep 29 16:08 archive-tmp/
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 0 Sep 29 16:25 classes/
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 0 Sep 29 16:25 generated-sources/
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 0 Sep 29 16:25 generated-test-sources/
-rwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 35929841 Sep 29 16:10 log-enrichment-jar-with-dependencies.jar*
drwxrwx--- 1 root vboxsf 0 Sep 29 16:08 maven-status/
I hope my experience can help somebody: I want to migrate my app Spring (using cas client) to Spring Boot (1.5 not 2.4 yet). I stucked with many problem like :
no main manifest attribute, in target/cas-client-web.jar
I want to make one unique jar with all dependencies. After some days in searching on the Internet. I can do my job with theses lines :
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<fork>true</fork>
<mainClass>${start-class}</mainClass>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>${start-class}</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
with start-class is your main class
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<start-class>com.test.Application</start-class>
</properties>
And my Application is like :
package com.test;
import java.util.Arrays;
import com.test.TestProperties;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableConfigurationProperties({TestProperties.class})
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}
@Bean
public CommandLineRunner commandLineRunner(ApplicationContext ctx) {
return args -> {
System.out.println("Let's inspect the beans provided by Spring Boot:");
String[] beanNames = ctx.getBeanDefinitionNames();
Arrays.sort(beanNames);
for (String beanName : beanNames) {
System.out.println(beanName);
}
};
}
}
I won't answer directly the question as other have already done that before, but I really wonder if it's a good idea to embed all the dependencies in the project's jar itself.
I see the point (ease of deployment / usage) but it depends of the use case of your poject (and there may be alternatives (see below)).
If you use it fully standalone, why not.
But if you use your project in other contexts (like in a webapp, or dropped in a folder where other jars are sitting), you may have jar duplicates in your classpath (the ones in the folder, the one in the jars). Maybe not a bid deal but i usually avoid this.
A good alternative :
Like this, with in the end just a manifest and a "special dynamic classloader main", you can start your project with :
java -jar ProjectMainJar.jar com.stackoverflow.projectName.MainDynamicClassLoaderClass
Add to pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.jolira</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4</version>
</dependency>
and
<plugin>
<groupId>com.jolira</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>one-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Thats it. Next mvn package will also create one fat jar additionally, including all dependency jars.
You can use maven-shade plugin to build a uber jar like below
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Ken Liu has it right in my opinion. The maven dependency plugin allows you to expand all the dependencies, which you can then treat as resources. This allows you to include them in the main artifact. The use of the assembly plugin creates a secondary artifact which can be difficult to modify - in my case I wanted to add custom manifest entries. My pom ended up as:
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unpack-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/target/dependency</directory>
<targetPath>/</targetPath>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
...
</project>
I compared the tree plugins mentioned in this post. I generated 2 jars and a directory with all the jars. I compared the results and definitely the maven-shade-plugin is the best. My challenge was that I have multiple spring resources that needed to be merged, as well as jax-rs, and JDBC services. They were all merged properly by the shade plugin in comparison with the maven-assembly-plugin. In which case the spring will fail unless you copy them to your own resources folder and merge them manually one time. Both plugins output the correct dependency tree. I had multiple scopes like test,provide, compile, etc the test and provided were skipped by both plugins. They both produced the same manifest but I was able to consolidate licenses with the shade plugin using their transformer. With the maven-dependency-plugin of course you don't have those problems because the jars are not extracted. But like some other have pointed you need to carry one extra file(s) to work properly. Here is a snip of the pom.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
<includeScope>compile</includeScope>
<excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive>
<overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
<overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots>
<overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.rbccm.itf.cdd.poller.landingzone.LandingZonePoller</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-my-jar-with-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.3</version>
<configuration>
<shadedArtifactAttached>false</shadedArtifactAttached>
<keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope>false</keepDependenciesWithProvidedScope>
<transformers>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.Providers</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/spring.factories</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/spring.handlers</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/spring.schemas</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
<resource>META-INF/spring.tooling</resource>
</transformer>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer"/>
<transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheLicenseResourceTransformer">
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
This blog post shows another approach with combining the maven-jar and maven-assembly plugins. With the assembly configuration xml from the blog post it can also be controlled if dependencies will be expanded or just be collected in a folder and referenced by a classpath entry in the manifest:
The ideal solution is to include the jars in a lib folder and the manifest.mf file of the main jar include all the jars in classpath.
And exactly that one is described here: https://caffebig.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/executable-jar-file-with-dependent-jars-using-maven/
Long used the maven assembly plugin, but I could not find a solution to the problem with "already added, skipping". Now, I'm using another plugin - onejar-maven-plugin. Example below (mvn package build jar):
<plugin>
<groupId>org.dstovall</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.company.MainClass</mainClass>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>one-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You need to add repository for that plugin:
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com</id>
<url>http://onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
Okay, so this is my solution. I know it's not using the pom.xml file. But I had the problem my programmme compiling and running on Netbeans but it failing when I tried Java -jar MyJarFile.jar. Now, I don't fully understand Maven and I think this why was having trouble getting Netbeans 8.0.2 to include my jar file in a library to put them into a jar file. I was thinking about how I used to use jar files with no Maven in Eclipse.
It's Maven that can compile all the dependanices and plugins. Not Netbeans. (If you can get Netbeans and be able to use java .jar to do this please tell me how (^.^)v )
[Solved - for Linux] by opening a terminal.
Then
cd /MyRootDirectoryForMyProject
Next
mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:compile
Next
mvn install
This will create jar file in the target directory.
MyJarFile-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar
Now
cd target
(You may need to run: chmod +x MyJarFile-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar)
And finally
java -jar MyJarFile-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar
Please see
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/LifecyclePhaseNotFoundException
I'll post this solution in on a couple of other pages with a similar problem. Hopefully I can save somebody from a week of frustration.
Source: Stackoverflow.com