When using the jar-with-dependencies descriptorRef for the maven-assembly-plugin, it creates two files by default, the normal default jar with any library dependencies excluded, and a second jar with all the libraries included appended with “jar-with-dependencies”. Since I find maven help guides unintuitive, it took a while before we found the appendAssemblyId option to turn it off. Here’s the snippet of the pom.xml to create just a single far jar.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>assembly</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
