An alternative is to turn your jar file into an executable jar file where
you put your main class in the manifest file.
<project>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<index>true</index>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.mycompany.app.App</mainClass>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Now you can use the -jar option to start your application.
regards,
Wim
2008/8/22 Ben Aurel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Alex, thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. I got it running
> with
>
> $ mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.mycompany.app.App
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > See http://mojo.codehaus.org/exec-maven-plugin/java-mojo.html
> >
> >
> > Ben Jakbot wrote:
> >>
> >> hi
> >> I try to start with maven and I'm sinking in tons of documentation.
> >> Docs are a good thing, but I somehow miss the very obvious.
> >>
> >> Right now I'm going through a the nice manual calling "Better Builds
> >> with Maven". Basically I ran the following commands:
> >>
> >> $mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \
> >> -DartifactId=my-app
> >> $ cd my-app
> >> $ mvn compile
> >> $ mvn test
> >> $ mvn test-compile
> >> $ mvn package
> >> $ mvn install
> >>
> >> which magically generated my a project structure a hello world kind of
> >> class and a test class for it. Then it compiled all the classes so
> >> that I now have
> >>
> >> $ ls target/
> >> classes maven-archiver my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> >> surefire-reports test-classes
> >>
> >> So my super simple task is complete this little roundtrip by running
> >> the app "my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar". And the question is how can I run
> >> it? Now I get the following error:
> >>
> >> $ java target/my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
> >> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> >> target/my-app-1/0-SNAPSHOT/jar
> >>
> >> I hoped not to have to mess around with classpathes. Could somebody
> >> help me with this?
> >>
> >> thanks in advance
> >> ben
> >>
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