Minimal parent project for any Java app (or service) that needs to be packaged in a fat-jar (using Maven shade plugin). It also produced a build info file so your code can report on its build time info.

To build this project do this:

$ mvn clean install

To use it just place the following at the top of your own pom.xml:

<parent>
	<groupId>org.public</groupId>
	<artifactId>app-parent</artifactId>
	<version>1.0.0</version>
</parent>

Once you've done this, every time you build your app will end up as a far JAR under your project's /target directory. Please read below about your app's main class.

You have to explicitly define your app's main class (fully qualified) in your app's pom.xml inside a <properties> section:

<app.main.class>com.mycompany.myapp.MyAppMain</app.main.class>

This is the property key this project's shaded JAR plugin will use to set the Main-Class: attribute in your app's JAR MANIFEST.MF file.

NOTE: Failure to do this will leave your app's fat JAR un-executable!

This parent POM uses the maven-git-commit-id-plugin. Please refer to that plugin's github page for full instructions.

But in short, you include a git.properties as a template in your project's /src/main/resources directory and this plugin generates a file of the exact same name with all the available git & build time info under your project's /target/classes.

You can then read that git.properties file at runtime and provide a /admin/build-info (or something similar) to your users.