Most frequently used Maven Plugins

maven-assembly-plugin
A plugin to package a runnable jar with all its dependencies.
'SkipAssembly' property when set to false packages the dependencies inside the jar!

false

'manifest' tag can be used to set the jar manifest entries

 
         com.bytemeagain.json.JsonPrettyPrinter
         com.bytemeagain.json

  
    maven-assembly-plugin
    
     
      jar-with-dependencies
      package
      
       single
      
      
       
        jar-with-dependencies
       
       false
       
        
         com.bytemeagain.json.JsonPrettyPrinter
         com.bytemeagain.json
        
        
         development
         https://github.com/homebrewcode/java
        
       
      
     
    
  

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maven-javadoc-plugin
A plugin to create java-docs using the java-doc comments in your codebase

   
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-javadoc-plugin
    
     
      attach-javadocs
      
       jar