> I am new to Maven so, please help me out with the solution. > I have set up a Java project and the pom creates a jar out of it. It has > 5 dependency jars which are in my repository and the project refers to > it fine (M2_REPO) >
This worries me. What do you mean by "M2_REPO"? You shouldn't have any references to the (local) repository in your project. > These external jars are being placed under src directory but are not > packaged with jar. > How are these jars being placed in the src folder? Anything being produced/copied/unpacked/etc during the build process should be put in the target folder. > I want to include these external jars in my jar. (Do not want to place > each jar in resource manually) > > How do you tell pom.xml to include dependency jars in resources of the > jar? > Did you try googling? http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg72607.html /Anders