Hello, something like the following works for me everytime. The only drawback 
is long compile times on slow machines. HTH, David

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<plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <mainClass>test.Test</mainClass>
                            <packageName>test</packageName>
                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                        </manifest>
                        <manifestEntries>
                            <mode>development</mode>
                            <url>${pom.url}</url>
                        </manifestEntries>
                        
<manifestFile>src/main/java/test/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
                    </archive>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                    <manifest>
                        <mainClass>test.Test</mainClass>
                        <packageName>test</packageName>
                        <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                    </manifest>
                    <manifestFile>src/main/java/test/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
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Run this at your POM.XML command-line directory:

mvn clean install assembly:assembly




cablepuff wrote ..
> 
> Hi i have a runnable jar files that depends on hibernate and spring (latest
> version of their jar file respectively).
> 
> I tried maven-jar-plugin.
> 
>               <plugin>
>               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
>               <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
>               <configuration>
>                 <archive>
>                   <manifest>
>                     <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
>                     <mainClass>company.main.execute</mainClass>
>                   </manifest>
>                 </archive>
>               </configuration>
>           </plugin>
> 
> but this doesn't allow me to distribute the file to other machine.
> 
> I also tried maven assembly plugin. 
> 
> <plugin>
>               <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
>               <configuration>
>                       <filters>
>                               
> <filter>src/main/filters/build.properties</filter>
>                       </filters>
>                       <descriptors>
>                       
> <descriptor>src/main/assemble/descriptor.xml</descriptor>
>               </descriptors>
>                       <workDirectory>target/assembly/work</workDirectory>
>                       <archive>
>                       <manifest>
>                               <mainClass>company.main.execute</mainClass>
>                       </manifest>
>               </archive>
>               </configuration>
>          </plugin>
> 
> my descriptor.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <assembly>
>   <id>jar-with-dependencies</id>
>   <formats>
>     <format>jar</format>
>   </formats>
>   <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
>   <dependencySets>
>     <dependencySet>
>       <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
>       <unpack>true</unpack>
>       <scope>runtime</scope>
>     </dependencySet>
>   </dependencySets>
>   <fileSets>
>     <fileSet>
>       <directory>target/classes</directory>
>       <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
>     </fileSet>
>   </fileSets>
> </assembly>
> 
> however i get this error
> about namespace www.springframework.org/schema/tx cannot be found. 
> 
> Is their a better way to create deployable jar files that runs on different
> machine. 
> 
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