Today I came across a problem where I had to split my project into two jars: one containing my project's classes and the other one with dependencies. The former got changed every time I made some changes in the source files. The latter was basically constant throughout the development.
This facilitates me the deployment of my application. Previously after each improvement I had to transfer a big-fat-and-ugly *-jar-with-dependencies.jar and that took ten good minutes as the file weights 189MB. It turned out that dependencies weight.. 189MB and my compiled classes 45KB.
Below the xml that I placed in src/main/resources/assemblies/only-deps.xml
only-deps
jar
false
/
false
true
runtime
and a profile that I added to the main pom.xml:
only-deps
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-assembly-plugin
src/main/resources/assemblies/only-deps.xml
package
create-my-bundle
single
Run the whole thing with mvn install -P only-deps.
