I have a Maven based Spring-WS client project that I want to package as a single jar. In eclipse, everything runs properly. When I try to package it as an executable jar, I get ClassNotFound exceptions since the Spring jars are not included in my application jar.
So I added the maven-shade-plugin to include all my dependencies in my application jar. When I look at my app jar, I see all the class files from all the dependencies included (all the library jar's are exploded).
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
<mainClass>com.cws.cs.Client</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
My problem is that in the packaging process, my multiple spring dependencies have different META-INF/spring.schemas files that override each other. Consequently, my final jar has an incomplete spring.schemas file.
So when I try to run my executable jar, I get Spring error messages that files cannot be found since the spring.schemas file is incomplete (the Spring-WS's jar has overriden the Spring-core's spring.schemas file).
My executable jar's META-INF/spring.schemas:
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-1.5.xsd=/org/springframework/ws/config/web-services-1.5.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-2.0.xsd=/org/springframework/ws/config/web-services-2.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services.xsd=/org/springframework/ws/config/web-services-2.0.xsd
Instead of Spring-beans.jar META-INF/spring.schemas:
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-2.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-tool-2.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-2.5.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-tool-2.5.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-3.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-tool-3.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool-3.1.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-tool-3.1.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-tool-3.1.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-util-2.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-util-2.5.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-util-3.0.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-util-3.1.xsd
http\://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd=org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-util-3.1.xsd
I'm stumped. I am not sure if/how I can package everything as a single executable jar. I don't know if this is a shade-plugin configuration issue, or if I am trying to do something impossible. It would not seem correct that I would have to manually create my own spring.schemas file (a concatenation of the others).
I may have jumped the gun a little. In digging up more info on the shade plugin, I noticed the AppendingTransformer that I had previously missed. However, my concern is how to know which other files are having the same problems? I've discovered/caught this particular Spring issue. I have no idea about any other libraries that may be doing something similar...
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
You can add the following configuration so that the contents of the .schema files from all the jars get appended together.
Yesterday I was encountered this issue too.
The solution was to prepare required files by manual concatenation and configuration of assembly plugin by this:
NOTE: using one jar approach is not good enough - you can't be certain on hand mixed files, try to keep exporting of all dependence's as is...
Instead of maven-shade-plugin use onejar-maven-plugin. One-JAR lets you package a Java application together with its dependency Jars into a single executable Jar file.
Have you tried the maven-assembly-plugin ?
It will create a single jar with dependencies for you and morevover it can make this jar be executable :
Use mainClass to specify the class you want to execute.