Building a fat jar using maven

Question

I have a code base which I want to distribute as jar. It also have dependency on external jars, which I want to bundle in the final jar.

I heard that this can be do

Answer 1

Maybe you want maven-shade-plugin, bundle dependencies, minimize unused code and hide external dependencies to avoid conflicts.

    
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-shade-plugin
            3.1.1
            
                
                    package
                    
                        shade
                    
                    
                        true
                        true
                        
                            ${java.io.tmpdir}/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
                        
                        
                            
                                com.acme.coyote
                                hidden.coyote
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    

References:

• http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/plugin-info.html
• http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html