We currently deploy these following shaded uber jars with ActiveMQ Artemis.
artemis-jms-client-all artemis-core-client-all artemis-jakarta-client-all We are in the process of removing jboss-logging, and replacing it by SLF4j /LOG4J on a separate branch, and we will probably make a switch on the branch as 3.0. I never really liked these shaded jars as part of the distribution. I would be inclined to remove them on a switch for 3.0 anyways, and now we are having a build issue, as they will fail (on a second build) shading apache-commons-logging: ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-plugin:3.3.0:shade (default) on project artemis-core-client-all: Error creating shaded jar: duplicate entry: META-INF/services/org.apache.activemq.artemis.shaded.org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException [ERROR] [ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command [ERROR] mvn <args> -rf :artemis-core-client-all Also, they add about 20MB to our distribution, and more 10MB for the core-client-all that's not on the distro but it is on maven repo. This is a common trend with other projects. Netty stopped producing a netty-all and is offering a pom. Jetty did the same thing.. and There are a lot of issues introduced by an "all client". So, even though we could fix the build, these JARs are never tested as part of the testsuite or anything.... It's like playing with the odds... and they are huge on the distribution as they will all include copies of Netty. I would really like to remove these JARs and I think it would be a great improvement to do so. These POMS are already defining all the dependencies anyway. Any user who wants to have a shaded jar would just be able to shade it themselves as part of their project. If anyone have a strong feeling about keeping them we would need: - your opinion (why we keep them on 3.0) - Help fixing the build on new-logging - Help with adding smoke tests for these jars. anyone?
