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

The shade plugin is attempting to include the project's artifact in the shaded JAR. Since it doesn't exist (yet), you're getting this error. You either need to build/package the project artifact first (e.g., by attaching the shade goal to the package phase)

If you don't have any project artifact to include in the shaded JAR, you can add an excludes node to remove the project's artifact.

Here's an example:

        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-shade-plugin
        1.6
        
            
                package
                
                    shade
                
                
                    
                        
                            com.group.id.Launcher1
                        
                    
                    
                        com.my.proj:AAA