Create runnable jar with maven 3.1 using maven-dependency-plugin doesn't create runnable jar

Question 1

Ok, i solved the second/updated Problem:

I first startet to use eclipse with maven plugin to create the runable jar file. This runs in the described problems.

After all i tried to use maven 3.1 from console application and after all it works. Seems that eclipse maven plugin has some problems.

Question 2

Not sure what's going on, but this is what my pom looks like for building a runnable jar using shade:

 <build>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
                <filtering>false</filtering>
                <includes>
                    <include>schema.xsd</include>
                </includes>
            </resource>
        </resources>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
                    <shadedClassifierName>stand-alone</shadedClassifierName>
                    <artifactSet>
                        <excludes>
                            <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:</exclude>
                            <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:jar:</exclude>
                            <exclude>org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:jar:</exclude>
                            <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:</exclude>
                            <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging-api:jar:</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </artifactSet>
                    <filters>
                        <filter>
                            <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                            <excludes>
                                <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
                                <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
                                <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
                            </excludes>
                        </filter>
                    </filters>
                    <finalName>MyFinalRunnableJarName</finalName>
                    <transformers>
                        <transformer
                            implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                            <mainClass>class.with.main.Method</mainClass>
                        </transformer>
                        <transformer
                            implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
                            <resource>META-INF/spring.handlers</resource>
                        </transformer>
                        <transformer
                            implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
                            <resource>META-INF/spring.schemas</resource>
                        </transformer>
                    </transformers>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

Question 3

The simplest solution is to use maven-assembly-plugin like this:

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    [...]
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <!-- NOTE: We don't need a groupId specification because the group is
             org.apache.maven.plugins ...which is assumed by default.
         -->
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>
        <configuration>
          <descriptorRefs>
            <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
          </descriptorRefs>
        </configuration>
        [...]
</project>

Question 4

Try to provide entry into manifest file:

Main-Class: YourClassWithMainMethod

And also see this post. So you can make it manually and see the difference.

If dependency-jars is a directory also try:

java -cp ./dependency-jars/* -jar program.jar

I still cannot post comments, so please show what are these NoCLassDefFoundErrors. And have you tried to do the same jar file manually from Eclipse and see the difference?

You have dependency dependency-jars/commons-cli-1.3-20140221.042048-103.jar in your manifest but you wrote you have SNAPSHOT version in directory. And there is only commons-cli:commons-cli:20040117.000000 in maven central.

@robermann please see this post (to work it should be in double quotes though)

Question 5

Are you sure your java version, launched at command line, is equal or greater than that used by maven when compiling? try java -version

Question 6

via command line, go to the parent dir of "dependency-jars" and run: java -jar program.jar

Question 7

Use this command to create jar file of any maven project.

mvn clean compile install