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

actually, adding the

   
    true
    com.some.pkg                     
    com.MainClass
  

declaration to maven-jar-plugin does not add the main class entry to the manifest file for me. I had to add it to the maven-assembly-plugin in order to get that in the manifest