I have a legacy JAVA project which uses ant
for builds. Since jar dependency management in this project is really tedious, I am planning to integrate maven.
I am trying to use maven
only for dependency management and keep using ant
for builds. I am contemplating to produce a single jar using maven which will contain all the dependencies and then I will include this single jar in classpath of my app.
I know this might not be the best approach but is it possible to do this? What might be a better approach?
I would create a pom.xml file (with all the required fields, like groupId, artifactId ...) add all the dependencies to this pom, and add maven assembly plugin to this pom. execute
mvm assembly:single
command. Your jar with all the dependencies will be created.