How to use a thin jar instead of a fat jar?

[Kumar Bolar, Harshith]

Hi folks,

We're currently deploying our Flink applications as a fat-jar using the 
maven-shade-plugin. Problem is, each application jar ends up being 
approximately 130-140 MB which is a pain to build and deploy every time. Is 
there a way to exclude dependencies and just deploy a thin jar to the cluster 
which comes up to about 50 kB?

Thanks,
Harshith