[Clirr-devel] maven goal for executable jar?

[Simon K. <si...@ec...>]

Hi,

Now we have a command-line interface for clirr, do you think it would be
nice to have a maven goal that builds a jar file which can be used like
this?

  java -jar clirr-app.jar  -o old/foo.jar -n new/foo.jar

Can maven do this? 

I believe that a jar file can "contain" its dependent jar files (eg
commons-cli, bcel, ...) and use something in META-INF to make them
effectively "in the classpath". This means that users don't need to
download the dependencies and fiddle around with CLASSPATH vars etc...

Regards,

Simon