Copy signed jar with dependencies

Question

I'm working on a maven web project. I've created a different maven project containing a couple of applets i want to use in the main project. This project is added as a dependency to the main project.

In my Applet-project POM,

I've added a plugin for creating a jar with dependencies,

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3</version>
    <configuration>
      <descriptorRefs>
        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
      </descriptorRefs>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>make-assembly</id> <!-- this is used for inheritance merges -->
        <phase>package</phase> <!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
        <goals>
          <goal>single</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

I've also signed the uberjar to avoid some security restrictions.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <goals>
          <goal>sign</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
      <execution>
        <id>make-assembly</id>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>sign</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
      <jarPath>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.FinalName}-${project.packaging}-with-dependencies.${project.packaging}</jarPath>
      <keystore>${basedir}/signstore.jks</keystore>
      <alias>signstore</alias>
      <storepass>signstore</storepass>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

I now want to copy the signed uberjar to the webapp folder whenever i build the main project, so my HTML files can use it.

Is this possible? I've only managed to copy the jar without the dependencies.

If you want to copy this jar i would take a deep look into the maven-dependency-plugin to use it for copying. I'm not sure if this will fit your requirements. — khmarbaise, May 06 '12 at 13:12
Well, I've looked into that, but I don't how to select the jar with the dependencies instead of the standard jar. — user1337157, May 06 '12 at 14:03
Specify the jar-with-the-dependencies as a `dependency` in your main project. That will make available this jar for copying. — Raghuram, May 06 '12 at 17:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 07 '12 at 14:27

I had the same problem with jar-with-dependencies, it is much more easy to build it using maven shade plugin:

<build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.6</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <transformers>
                                <transformer
                                    implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                    <mainClass>your.main.Class</mainClass>
                                </transformer>
                            </transformers>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

This was working in no time after hours fighting with the maven jar plugin. It also solves conflicts between dependencies for you

Copy signed jar with dependencies

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