Maven jar Plugin

External

• http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/

Internal

• Maven

Declaring a Main Class in JAR

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        ...
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifest>
              <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
              <mainClass>fully.qualified.MainClass</mainClass>
            </manifest>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
        ...
      </plugin>

Other Manifest Customization

Adding arbitrary manifest entries: