Plugin Documentation

This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.

Goals

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
jar:help Display help information on maven-jar-plugin.
Call mvn jar:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
jar:jar Build a JAR from the current project.
jar:test-jar Build a JAR of the test classes for the current project.

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
from 3.4.0 to 3.4.2 3.6.3 8
3.3.0 3.2.5 8
from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 3.1.0 7
from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 3.0 7
from 3.0.0 to 3.0.2 3.0 6
2.6 2.2.1 5
from 2.4 to 2.5 2.0.6 5
from 2.2 to 2.3.2 2.0.6 1.4
2.1 2.0 -
from 2.0-beta-1 to 2.0 - -

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-jar-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>3.4.2</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-jar-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

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