JAR Layout
Archive a fat jar with all the dependencies, so that you can inplace run or use the jar if you haven't maven repository. Following is an example:
xx.jar
|-META-INF
|-maven
|-MENIFEST.MF
|-lib
|-a.jar
|-b.jar
and the MENIFEST.MF is like this:
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Archiver-Version: Plexus Archiver
Created-By: Apache Maven
Built-By: Administrator
Build-Jdk: 1.5.0_12
Extension-Name: eaf-service-impl
Implementation-Title: eaf-service-impl
Implementation-Version: 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
Class-Path: lib/a.jar lib/b.jar
Usage
in your pom.xml, add following:
<properties>
<deployDir>D:\jboss\server\all\deploy</deployDir>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
....
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-fatjar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>fatjar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>fatjar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<classpathPrefix>lib</classpathPrefix>
<deployDirectory>${deployDir}</deployDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>