Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
shade:help Display help information on maven-shade-plugin.
Call mvn shade:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
shade:shade Mojo that performs shading delegating to the Shader component.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 3.6.3
JDK 1.8

System Requirements History

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin for historical versions:

Plugin Version Maven JDK
3.5.1 3.2.5 8
from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 3.1.1 8
3.3.0 3.1.1 7
from 3.2.0 to 3.2.4 3.0 7
from 3.0.0 to 3.1.1 3.0 6
from 2.0 to 2.4.3 3.0 5
from 1.5 to 1.7.1 2.0.6 5
up to 1.4 2.0.6 1.4

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>3.5.2</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"