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With Maven, how can I build a distributable that has my project's jar and all of the dependent jars?
maybe I'm blind, but can the maven assembly plugin just create a zip file containing the current project.jar and all my dependency jars? the "bin" id contains just my project.jar and the jar-with-dependencies puts all together in one jar which I don't like.
You need a custom assembly descriptor to do what you want. It's a combination of the bin and the jar-with-dependencies predefined descriptors. Created a custom assembly descriptor called assembly.xml
in the src/main/assembly
folder.
Here's an example that is basically the bin descriptor with the dependency set added:
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">
<id>bin</id>
<formats>
<format>tar.gz</format>
<format>tar.bz2</format>
<format>zip</format>
</formats>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
<includes>
<include>README*</include>
<include>LICENSE*</include>
<include>NOTICE*</include>
</includes>
</fileSet>
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.build.directory}/site</directory>
<outputDirectory>docs</outputDirectory>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
<dependencySets>
<dependencySet>
<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
<useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependencySet>
</dependencySets>
</assembly>
Then change your pom to use a descriptor instead of a descriptorRef to tell it where your custom descriptor is.
<project>
[...]
<build>
[...]
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
[...]
</project>
Take a look here Example 502...there is an example how to package all dependencies etc. into a tar.gz/zip etc.
Take a look at fat-jar plugin.