mavenjarmaven-assembly-plugin

remove jar created by default in maven


I am using maven assembly plugin. in my pom.xml, pakaging type: jar and i dont use maven jar plugin.

Whenever i run mvn clean package, it create 2 jar files: one is from maven assembly, another one is created by default (due to packaging type =jar). I want to keep only the jar file created by assembly plugin only. How to do that?


Solution

  • You may have your reasons but I doubt that it is a good solution to skip the default jar being built and deployed.

    Anyhow here is how you can disable the default jar being built.

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <id>make-assembly</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <!-- some configuration of yours... -->
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>default-jar</id>
                        <!-- put the default-jar in the none phase to skip it from being created -->
                        <phase>none</phase>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>