Hi,
About a week ago version 1.4 of the maven-shade-plugin[1] has been released One of the new features[2] which has been added is the minimizeJar option[3]. Torsten Curdt used his experience of the minijar-maven-plugin[4] to provide this patch, so this functionality is put on the best and most logical place at the moment you can think of. With this feature inside the maven-shade-plugin there's no real need to continue the development of the minijar-plugin anymore. For this reason we're asking the team if they agree on retiring this plugin. Once retired Torsten will provide a page explaining how to migrate from the minijar-plugin to the shade-plugin. The vote is open for 72 hours and will succeed by lazy consensus. - Robert [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/ [2] http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MSHADE-84 [3] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html#minimizeJar [4] http://mojo.codehaus.org/minijar-maven-plugin
