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How do I build a jar file that contains its dependencies?
Author: Deron Eriksson
Description: This maven tutorial describes how to build a jar file that contains its dependencies using the maven-shade-plugin plugin.
Tutorial created using:
Windows Vista || JDK 1.6.0_04 || Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0.1 (Eclipse 3.3.1)
(Continued from page 1) After the mavenSW command has completed, we can see that the target directory now contains a "mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" regular jarW file and an "uber-mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" uber jar file. 
We can see that the "mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" file contains the regular expected contents. 
If we examine the contents of the "uber-mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" jar file, we can see that it actually contains the classes from the commons-lang dependency. 
We would expect that executing the MyTest class in the mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file without adding additional jar files to the classpathW would result in a NoClassDefFoundError. This is exactly what happens. The command is shown here: C:\dev\workspace\mytest\target>java -cp mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.maventest.MyTest We would also expect that executing the MyTest class in the uber-mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file would work since it contains the commons-lang dependency classes. This is what happens. The command is shown here: C:\dev\workspace\mytest\target>java -cp uber-mytest-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar com.maventest.MyTest The execution of these commands in a command prompt window is shown below. 
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