The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JAR Plugin, version 2.5.
This plugin provides the capability to build jars. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/ You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.5</version> </plugin> Release Notes - Maven JAR Plugin - Version 2.5 Bugs: [MJAR-157] - forceUpdate documentation is insufficient [MJAR-162] - skipIfEmpty not work for test-jar goal and empty directories [MJAR-167] - skipIfEmpty outputs incorrect logging nessage Improvements: [MJAR-168] - Update to latest plexus-archiver [MJAR-170] - please add property 'maven.jar.classifier' [MJAR-175] - Documentation problem for test-jar [MJAR-176] - Usage page should (only) describe default behavior Tasks: [MJAR-158] - use maven-plugin-tools' java 5 annotations [MJAR-171] - Remove deprecated mojo jar-sign and jar-sign-verify [MJAR-173] - Check correctness of declared deps Enjoy, -The Apache Maven team
