How to create a Maven distributable

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I would like to create a ZIP distributable for my java application with Maven with the following structure :

/lib -> my generated jars (several modules core.jar, app.jar ... )

/config -> several configuration files (app.properties, ...)

/3rdparty -> all jar dependencies (commons-lang.jar, log4j.jar ... )

/scripts -> helper scripts (start.sh ... )

I would like to deploy this in any client machine and run as :

java -cp ../lib:../3rdparty -Dprop.file=app.properties [main.class]

I have read quite a lot about the maven assembly plugin but have not found a satisfactory answer on how to ahcieve this.

No GUI. This is a single standalone java app fully controlled by JConsole (JMX exposed beans). — kms333, Apr 23 '12 at 13:08
Got it. That rules out my favorite installer, [JWS](http://stackoverflow.com/tags/java-web-start/info). — Andrew Thompson, Apr 23 '12 at 13:30
Have you considered creating a packaged installer? See: http://izpack.codehaus.org/izpack-maven-plugin/ — Mark O'Connor, Apr 23 '12 at 19:24

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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The Maven Assembly plugin is the right thing to use here. There's plenty of examples on how to use it out there, here are some:

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answered Apr 23 '12 at 08:52

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '12 at 10:41

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The are of the scripts folder with starting scripts can be done via the appassembler-maven-plugin which creates scripts for running/starting applications. To create a single archive which contains all that stuff you can use the maven-assembly-plugin.

answered Apr 23 '12 at 10:41

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