What is the best way to combine all of my .class files & my jar dependencies into a single jar?

Old Forum Archive
1

I’d like to combine all of my .class files and my jar dependencies into a single jar file (so I can deploy a single file & run my app using java -jar app.jar).

What is the easiest way to do this with gradle?

Do I need to write a task to copy all the .classfiles into a single directory & then jar it up with the jar task? If so, is there an example that gets me part of the way there?

Thanks, Neil

2

I recommend to use the (third-party) ‘gradle-one-jar’ plugin.

3

I’ve been playing with the Shadow plugin (https://github.com/johnrengelman/shadow) this week and it seems to work pretty well. If you do try it, make sure you run ‘gradle knows’.

4

Thanks, I’ll look at both.

Neil

P.S. Chris, you are right. ‘gradle knows’ is a good target!