Building A Runnable Maven JavaSE Desktop Application And Including Its Jar Dependencies
Usually it’s very easy to create a runnable jar using Netbean’s ant plugin, but on this project im trying to utilize maven. One painfull thing is somehow maven is unable to build create a runnable jar file which included its jar dependencies.
After several minutes googling, i’ve found a very good solution. Here is the content of my pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.edw</groupId> <artifactId>Edw</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source> <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>commons-io</groupId> <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <executions> <execution> <phase>process-sources</phase> <goals> <goal>copy-dependencies</goal> </goals> <configuration> <outputDirectory>${targetdirectory}</outputDirectory> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix> <mainClass>com.edw.Main</mainClass> </manifest> </archive> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> <configuration> <descriptors> <descriptor>src/main/assembly/customAssembly.xml</descriptor> </descriptors> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>make-assembly</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>single</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
And dont forget, adding an xml file, customAssembly.xml which located on src/main/assembly/ folder
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd"> <id>bin</id> <formats> <format>zip</format> </formats> <fileSets> <fileSet> <directory>${project.build.directory}</directory> <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory> <includes> <include>*.jar</include> </includes> </fileSet> <fileSet> <directory>${project.build.directory}/dependency</directory> <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory> </fileSet> </fileSets> </assembly>
Just build your application from Netbeans, and you will find a zip file on your Netbeans’ target folder, which consist of a runnable jar file and a lib folder containing your jar dependencies.
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