Maven shade plugin adding dependency-reduced-pom.xml to base directory

Question

The maven shade plugin is creating a file called dependency-reduced-pom.xml and also artifactname-shaded.jar and placing them in the base directory.

Is this a bug? Should be in the target directory. Any workaround?

Answer 1

You can avoid having it created by setting createDependencyReducedPom to false.

e.g.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-shade-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
    </configuration>
    ....
    ....
</plugin>

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