# How do I use the Gradle Shadow Plugin to merge spring.handlers and spring.schemas files of multiple Spring jar dependencies?

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**Created:** [January 19, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-do-i-use-the-gradle-shadow-plugin-to-merge-spring-handlers-and-spring-schemas-files-of-multiple-spring-jar-dependencies/6713 "2015-01-19T00:15:00Z")\
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Should be able to do something like this.

shadowJar {

mergeServiceFiles(‘META-INF’) {

include ‘spring.\*’

}

}

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