The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Shade Plugin, version 1.7
Repackages the project classes together with their dependencies into a single uber-jar, optionally renaming classes or removing unused classes. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.7</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 1.7 Bug * [MSHADE-119] slash-leading classpath resources not properly rewritten when repackaging classes * [MSHADE-115] Temporary dependency-reduced-pom.xml in basedir causes problems within shared build trees * [MSHADE-107] ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when using minimizeJar with shade plugin * [MSHADE-75] Package maven multimodule project with shade plugin : error in opening zip on directory Enjoy, -The Maven team