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Reputation: 7665

copy dependencies side by side with my main jar

I am trying to have all my dependencies side by side with my main jar in lib folder
I have added the maven-dependency-plugin configuration to the pom specifying the outputDirectory
the build is successful when running 

mvn clean package

Main jar is compiled and built, but I don't see the dependencies copied, what am I doing wrong?

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.2</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy-dependencies</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

maven version

C:\Users\user56>mvn -v
Apache Maven 3.5.0 (REMOVED; 2017-04-03T15:39:06-04:00)
Maven home: c:\apache-maven-3.5.0\bin\..
Java version: 1.8.0_144, vendor: Oracle Corporation

Upvotes: 1

Views: 87

Answers (1)

gjoranv
gjoranv

Reputation: 4711

I tried your configuration with maven 3.5 and maven-dependency-plugin 2.10, and it works. The dependencies are copied to <project>/target/lib. Please check your maven version (mvn -v) and the version of the plugin and upgrade if you're using older versions.

[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.10:copy-dependencies (copy-dependencies) @ myproject ---
[INFO] Copying guava-18.0.jar to /Users/user/git/myproject/target/lib/guava-18.0.jar

Upvotes: 1

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