The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 2.2

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade – i.e. rename – the packages of some of the dependencies.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Apache Maven Shade Plugin – Version 2.2

Improvements:

• MSHADE-158 – Allow shading of test jar

Have fun.