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How to create spring-based executable jar with maven?

Asked 2012-06-22T16:41:02.017
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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>
            </execution
java spring maven spring-ws maven-shade-plugin
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Yesterday I was encountered this issue too.

The solution was to prepare required files by manual concatenation and configuration of assembly plugin by this:

  <files>
    <file>
        <source>src/META-INF/spring.schemas</source>
        <outputDirectory>META-INF</outputDirectory>
    </file>
    <file>
        <source>src/META-INF/spring.handlers</source>
        <outputDirectory>META-INF</outputDirectory>
    </file>
  </files>
  <dependencySets>
    <dependencySet>
      <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
      <useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact>
      <unpack>true</unpack>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
      <unpackOptions>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>META-INF/spring.handlers</exclude>
            <exclude>META-INF/spring.schemas</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </unpackOptions>  
    </dependencySet>
  </dependencySets>

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...

answered 2012-08-02T03:51:14.360

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