Why does "mvn assembly:single" create a fat jar with just the assemblies and not my code?

Question

I have a maven project I created with spring roo. When I run mvn assembly:single I get a fat jar with all the dependencies, but not the actual code I wrote. Here is my maven-assembly-plugin configuration from my pom.xml:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <descriptorRefs>
                    <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                </descriptorRefs>
                <archive>
                    <manifest>
                        <mainClass>net.justaprogrammer.poi.cleanser.Cleanser</mainClass>
                    </manifest>
                </archive>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The solution is to add the single goal to the package phase of the project life cycle. This means you have to add the following xml under the configuration section:

            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>single</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>