Building single fat jar from a multi module maven project - including test classes

I'm in a situation where I need to build a fat jar from a multi module maven project. The project is built based on Selenium/cucumber API's.

Structure of my project is as follows

   Parent -- pom    |    |__core_module src/main/java --> helper classes for selenium    |    |__acme_module src/main/test --> Test Classes for acme project 

I have tried different ways to build a "acme_test.jar" which includes core_module+acme_module.But none of them helped me.

Much appreciate any clue to solve this .

Thanks

2 Answers

Answers 1

Configure acme_module as fat module - this module should produce executable fat jar with all dependencies.

Add core_module to acme_module as dependency.

Move your test classes from src/test/java to src/main/java, because this class should be executable. If you have tests (like junit), then leave this classes inside test directory, but executable part should stay in main.

Answers 2

As @MariuszS mentions, first restructure your project so that you separate any Unit tests or integration tests for the actual classes that test (=drive/verify navigation for) Acme.

   Parent -- pom    |    |__core_module src/main/java --> helper classes for selenium    |    |__acme_module src/main/java --> Classes specific for navigating acme     |    |__acme_module src/test/java--> (Unit etc) Test Classes for acme project 

Then, you need acme_module to contain core_module as dependency.

Finally, in acme_module, put this in your build plugins section:

<plugin>     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>     <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>     <version>2.4.3</version>     <executions>         <execution>             <id>create-fat-jar</id>             <phase>package</phase>             <goals>                 <goal>shade</goal>             </goals>             <configuration>                 <transformers>                 <!-- add Main-Class to manifest file -->                     <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">                         <mainClass>your.main.class</mainClass>                     </transformer>                 </transformers>                     <finalName>YourJarName</finalName>             </configuration>         </execution>     </executions> </plugin> 

You can also explicitly include the core_module by adding an include filter in the plugin configuration section

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