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 Selecting Contents for Uber JAR
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 Mauro Talevi
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 2008-07-21
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Selecting Contents for Uber JAR

  The POM snippet below shows how to control which project dependencies should be included/excluded in the uber JAR:

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<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <artifactSet>
                <excludes>
                  <exclude>classworlds:classworlds</exclude>
                  <exclude>junit:junit</exclude>
                  <exclude>jmock:jmock</exclude>
                  <exclude>xml-apis:xml-apis</exclude>
                </excludes>
              </artifactSet>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
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  Of course, <<<\<includes\>>>> can be used as well to specify a white list of artifacts. Artifacts are denoted by a
  composite idenitifer of the form <groupId>:<artifactId>[:<classifier>].

  For fine-grained control of which classes from the selected dependencies are included, artifact filters can be used:

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<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>${project.version}</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <filters>
                <filter>
                  <artifact>junit:junit</artifact>
                  <includes>
                    <include>junit/framework/**</include>
                    <include>org/junit/**</include>
                  </includes>
                  <excludes>
                    <exclude>org/junit/experimental/**</exclude>
                    <exclude>org/junit/runners/**</exclude>
                  </excludes>
                </filter>
              </filters>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
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  Here, Ant-like patterns are used to specify that from the dependency <<<junit:junit>>> only certain classes/resources
  should be included in the uber JAR.