I was wondering if there is some utility out there for this. Build a maven jar package for a simple 1-off app. Could be something bigger, but basically you want to execute this on the command line. What I do now is run assembly with 'jar-with-dependencies' (if that's not exactly it, you know what I mean). Then I manually set up my command line with...
java -cp target\whatever-1.0-SNAPSHOT-with-dependencies.jar com.package.Apparg0 arg1 ... The problem here is that you have to have the full path info for the classpath, and always have to run the assembly deal. I was thinking one or both of two things. mvn-run groupId=com.example.example-app artifactId=example-app com.package.App arg0 arg1 The 'mvn-run' code would add to the classpath according to the group and package info in the repository. It might also be possible to add groupId and artifactId as environment variables and just run... mvn-run com.package.App arg0 arg1 Obviously version would be an optional argument. (I just went and checked the maven bin folder to make sure this exact thing wasn't already there) Ok. The other one. Closely related, but I'm not sure of the value. An execute plugin. mvn exe:exe -DappClass=com.package.App -Dargruments='arg0 arg1' I've been up really late working, so this might be nonsense, but I know this is a common useage patter that I have and it gets clunky because of the classpath, etc. Any thoughts?
