Is it possible for you to use maven to build your fat jar? Check out the maven shade plugin, which has handling for things like META-INF, and some special cases (like services manifests) such as merging those from multiple jar files.
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/examples/resource-transformers.html The (not recommended) alternative is to place your JARs in the supervisor's lib directory. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Harald Kirsch <[email protected]>wrote: > I am trying to use tika-parsers-1.4.jar in a self-build fat jar, meaning I > just unjar all jars into one directory and jar the result into one fat jar. > > The problem is, that this produces an unreliable META-INF, so just before > running jar, I delete the META-INF directory. > > This seemed to work, except that tika-parsers does not work anymore. No > error, no exception, no log, it just returns nothing. And I can boil this > down to the META-INF. > > Now, there might be a way to hand-craft a fat jar that works. However I > wonder if there is a better way to add additional jars to a topology? > > Harald. > >
