The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Shade Plugin, version 1.7.1
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>1.7.1</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven Shade Plugin - Version 1.7.1 Bug * [MSHADE-123] 1.7 Causes failures in other plugins make "basedir" point to the build dir * [MSHADE-121] Default value of parameter 'dependencyReducedPomLocation' broken. Enjoy, -The Maven team