-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/11/2015 12:46 PM, Richard Catlin wrote: > I built a jar using a pom. The jar depends on jars in the maven > repository. How do I run my jar and include the jars in the maven > repository in the classpath? If it possible to extract all the > dependent jars into a /lib directory that I can add to my classpath > at runtime? > > Thanks. Richard >
Richard, I can think of two ways to do this. 1. Uber jar (I've not tried this) See the Shade plugin at: https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/ 2. Assembly plugin (this is what I do) A. JAR Plugin In your POM, configure the JAR plugin to contain three pieces of information. a) mainClass - this is obviously the class that has the main method b) addClassPath - set this to true c) classpathPrefix - I've set mine to lib B. Dependency Plugin In your POM, configure the dependency plugin to copy all of the dependencies to the subdirectory of the target directory. The subdirectory name should be the same as the classpathPrefix value For example: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.8</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>copy-dependencies</goal> </goals> <configuration> <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory> <includeScope>compile</includeScope> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> (This is an old project, update as appropriate). C. Assembly Plugin Configure the assembly plugin to create a zip file, tar.gz file, whatever . . . In src/main/assembly/assembly.xml, put in something like the following (note that I've left out the namespaces for brevity): <assembly> <id>bin</id> <formats> <format>tar.gz</format> <format>zip</format> </formats> <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory> <includeSiteDirectory>false</includeSiteDirectory> <fileSets> <fileSet> <directory>target</directory> <outputDirectory></outputDirectory> <includes> <include>*.jar</include> <include>lib/</include> </includes> </fileSet> </fileSets> </assembly> C. Construct your package: mvn package mvn assembly:single This will leave you a .tar.gz file and a .zip file (using the assembly.xml above). D. Unzip (or untar) and run Now when you unarchive your .tar.gz file or .zip file, you'll end up with a JAR file (your code) and a lib subdirectory with all of the compile time dependencies. You should be able to run the JAR file from the command line with: java -jar [your-jar-file-name] I'm a relative newcomer to Maven, but I hope this helps. . . . just my two cents. /mde/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVUQxCAAoJEEFGbsYNeTwtJ6MIAKdAktpSRvs8c+e8gxQSZ0Ce zTGUi90FxH1tDS5BKhWVxAFH+UA6ZPA/rFl/UCG0S698ZDZ7CHBZbhp0AxDHZg8j M9TvSOx0OauTiqubY4PmpYDE34oTSUVQPBvn7BQxgUa6PXLMNYTN+ex8OZzXpG7G yWyU0IW5o1mHwo/zCOy7yetHPezRC0KGPiQc7esjpiubuwHWPOUebBNeiqD/0/Fg iS0rIUDHOZaoryumYr9gFvRpQ0Tyorz/PT51f/6t0cceWNfgPls0yCxdQmzsaUVD FA4Ck2fkIeAquRCmxdDOXtM5PKSVFj8Sd1O2OHkcYPMgCJm38GVd4fSfx17s+dU= =MNr0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
