package to jar

[bambala2002]

Hello,

I used the simple app as a starting point for my application. Now it's complete and I want to export it to jar.

When I run the "mvn package" command, I get a jar file but it wont start.

>java -jar myapp-0.3.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory at myapp.app.SimpleApp.<clinit>(SimpleApp.java:52)

The application can't find the commons-logging-1.1.jar (and any other libraries)
It runs perfectly in eclipse. I added all my libraries to Build Path there.

Also, is it wrong to use external libraries not from the maven repository? I created a "lib" folder in my project root, and copied some libraries there.

[ge0ffrey]

This is a maven question, see maven user list on news.gmane.org.

Just make sure the dependency jars are also copied to the target directory[1] and added in the Class-Path[2].

[1] see maven assembly plugin
[2] see maven jar plugin configuration