maven-shade-plugin

How to create spring-based executable jar with maven?

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You can add the following configuration so that the contents of the .schema files from all the jars get appended together. <configuration> <transformers> <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> </transformers> </configuration>

What is the maven-shade-plugin used for, and why would you want to relocate Java packages?

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Uber JAR, in short, is a JAR containing everything. Normally in Maven, we rely on dependency management. An artifact contains only the classes/resources of itself. Maven will be responsible to find out all artifacts (JARs etc) that the project depending on when the project is built. An uber-jar is something that takes all dependencies, and … Read more