Application Assembler

Note: This plugin will not include test classes or dependencies in the test scope.

Links

http://mojo.codehaus.org/appassembler/appassembler-maven-plugin/introduction.html

Setup

Add the following to your pom.xml updating the mainClass as required:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
      <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <programs>
          <program>
            <mainClass>com.mycompany.app.App</mainClass>
            <name>app</name>
          </program>
        </programs>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

Assemble

Note: This has to be run with Java 1.5 (or above):

mvn package appassembler:assemble

Execute

To run the application in Windows:

target\appassembler\bin\app.bat