m2e shade eclipse “project main artifact does not exist”

Question

I\'m trying to make a deployment package that bundles all the dependencies of my maven module that has dependencies to another maven project in eclipse.

I have this in m

Answer 1

[ERROR] The project main artifact does not exist. This could have the following

We were getting this problem recently. What resolved it for us was to not do mvn shade:shade but instead use:

mvn package

This does additional compilation and package work before running the shade plugin and so the main class was available on the classpath.