Here’s a short example of how to assemble a Java application using Maven so you have a nice Windows Batch file or a Unix/OS X Shellscript to running your application, as well as all dependencies nicely gathered in a repo folder.

Enter appassembler plugin for Maven.

Add the following to your pom.xml:

From the command line just issue this mvn command to have your application assembled:

> mvn package appassembler:assemble

This will the create an appassembler folder under the target folder.

Like this:

-target

   -appassembler

      -bin

         -Simulator.bat

         -Simulator

     -repo

        - “all dependecies + the applications own jar”

Btw. under Unix/OS X you have to remember to (the first time) set the executeable bit on the Simulator shell script:

> chmod +x Simulator

After that you can execute it using

> ./Simulator arg1 arg2

Hope this helps :)

Note: Appassembler doesn’t work with local project jars (aka. system dependencies) as described in this blog.