How to include jars in a package (.jar) using Maven?

you can use the maven archiver to create an executable jar
http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-archiver/examples/classpath.html#Make

you'll then run it with


java -jar my.jar 333333 tolgar sometext

Thank you for your quick reply.

I added the following lines into my pom as referred in the Maven documentation:

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifest>
              <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
              <mainClass>com.SOMEDOMAIN.tools.my.myfirstjavaprog</mainClass>
            </manifest>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

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Then ran the following commands:

mvn clean

mvn package

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When I look at the target directory I can see that the my.jar file was created.

Then I go to command line and typed:

java -jar my.jar 333333 tolgar sometext

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And I got the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/rpc/Service
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.rpc.Service
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
Could not find the main class: com.SOMEDOMAIN.tools.my.myfirstjavaprog. Program will exit.

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I remember this error before I wanted to create this jar. I fixed this kind of errors by doing setenv CLASSPATH to certain jar files. I guess while creating the jar file these jar files are not included in it.

As I showed you above they do not locate inside this project folder. They are mostly under the following directory:

/home/tolgar/.m2/repository/


Do you know a way of making these part of the .jar file? One idea can be to copy them under the project. But into which directory should I put these jars?

Thanks,

try putting them in the same directory.
you can check the manifest for the jar to see where it is lookinmg for them

First, I tried to put these 8 jar files in the following directory:

src\main\resources

I got the same error.

Then I put it with the same directory as my java code. The error message did not change.

The manifest file inside the generated jar looks like this:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: tolgar
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_20
Main-Class: com.SOMEDOMAIN.tools.my.myfirstjavaprog
Class-Path: commons-lang-2.5.jar jung-api-2.0.1.jar collections-generi
 c-4.01.jar jung-graph-impl-2.0.jar jung-io-2.0.1.jar jung-algorithms-
 2.0.1.jar colt-1.2.0.jar concurrent-1.3.4.jar wstx-asl-3.2.6.jar stax
 -api-1.0.1.jar jung-jai-2.0.1.jar jung-visualization-2.0.1.jar json-s
 imple-1.1.jar mysql-connector-java-5.1.12.jar jaxb-api-2.0.jar jsr173
 _api-1.0.jar activation-1.1.jar axis-1.4.jar axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar axis
 -saaj-1.4.jar axis-wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar commons-logging-1.0.4.jar commons
 -discovery-0.2.jar jaxb-impl-2.0.2.jar

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Do you have an idea why I am still getting this error?

Thanks,

they need to be in the same directory as you are running it from.

I am really sorry but I did not understand what you mean by saying the same directory as I am running it from.

I am running the jar file which is in the target directory. But these jars should be somewhere under src. And they will be embedded into the jar during packaging.

Can you please explain bit a little bit in detail?

Thanks,

put all the jars (including the application jar) in one directory
then try and run it from there

I put them all in the same place and I got this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
        at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.class$(LogFactory.java:45)
        at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory$1.run(LogFactory.java:45)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.getLogFactory(LogFactory.java:41)
        at org.apache.axis.components.logger.LogFactory.<clinit>(LogFactory.java:33)
        at org.apache.axis.description.OperationDesc.<clinit>(OperationDesc.java:65)
        at com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal.ws.GeckWebServiceSoapBindingStub._initOperationDesc1(GeckWebServiceSoapBindingStub.java:29)
        at com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal.ws.GeckWebServiceSoapBindingStub.<clinit>(GeckWebServiceSoapBindingStub.java:20)
        at com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal.myfirstjavaprog.main(myfirstjavaprog.java:16)

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I again remember this error message before using setenv CLASSPATH. Then I used CLASSPATH with the jar files and the problem was solved. It looks like it cannot see one the jars again.

I basically copied the my.jar file and the following jar files into one separate directory and ran the same command.

The jar files are:

axis-1.4.jar
axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar
axis-saaj-1.4.jar
axis-wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
commons-discovery-0.2.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
javaee.jar

I think it still cannot see one or more of these jars. Because it works fine when I put them in the class path.

thats not all the jars that are listed in the manifest, do you not need the others?

Actually I don't know. I didn't create the manifest by myself. And I don't know where these jars locate.

So do you mean I also need to put the jars in the manifest in the same directory?

Thanks,

Awesome!!!

 It worked. Thank you for your continuous help on this issue.

I appreciate

One last question.

I am going to give this code to other people. And I don't want to give the library jar and the my.jar separately.

 Is there a way of combining these two into one jar file and call it as a package?

Thanks,

there are a few products around eg. fat jar http://one-jar.sourceforge.net/

simply though to just zip up all the jars and have them unzipped when installed.

I have found something that may help to create one jar file in Maven. It says:

If you want to create a JAR file that includes your code along with all your dependencies, then use the assembly plugin with the jar-with-dependencies descriptor. Maven will generate a complete JAR file with all your classes plus the classes from any dependencies.

This is the link to the page:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97640/force-maven2-to-copy-dependencies-into-target-lib

But when I put the following in my pom.xml it gave me the same error again.

<assembly>
		<id>jar-with-dependencies</id>
		<formats>
			<format>jar</format>
		</formats>
		<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
		<fileSets>
			<fileSet>
				<directory>target/classes</directory>
				<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
			</fileSet>
		</fileSets>
		<dependencySets>
			<dependencySet>
				<outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
				<unpack>true</unpack>
				<scope>runtime</scope>
			</dependencySet>
		</dependencySets>
</assembly>

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The only thing that I want is to copy all the jars that is required (they are declared in the manifest file) into one jar including the application itself.

Can you please explain me how I can make it work?

Thanks,

I also tried the following in pom.xml:

<plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>copy</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <artifactItems>
                <artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>javaee.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				<artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>axis-1.4.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				<artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>axis-jaxrpc-1.4.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				<artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>axis-saaj-1.4.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				<artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>axis-wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				<artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>commons-logging-1.0.4.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				<artifactItem>
                  <!-- Artifact gets loaded from repository at build time. -->
                  <groupId>com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal</groupId>
                  <artifactId>GeckoPrequal</artifactId>
                  <version>2.0</version>
                  <type>jar</type>
                  <!-- Per artifact configuration here: -->
                  <overWrite>true</overWrite>
                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                  <destFileName>commons-discovery-0.2.jar</destFileName>
                </artifactItem>
				
				
              </artifactItems>
              <!--
              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
              -->
              <overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
              <overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

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When I run:

mvn clean

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it did fine. But when I say:

mvn package

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I got the following error:

Embedded error: Unable to download the artifact from any repository

Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

Then, install it using the command:
    mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal -DartifactId=GeckoPrequal -Dversion=2.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:
    mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal -DartifactId=GeckoPrequal -Dversion=2.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]


  com.mywork.tools.GeckoPrequal:GeckoPrequal:jar:2.0

from the specified remote repositories:
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
  java.net (http://download.java.net/maven/1),
  jung.cvs.sourceforge.net (http://jung.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jung/jung2/)

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Can you please help me to fix this issue?

Thanks,

Any idea??

you appear to be adding the artefact you are building as a dependency. why are you doing that?

Actually we can close this question. Because your last solution helped me a lot. And it is not really required to put them in one jar. Placing all jar in one directory works fine for me.


Thank you so much