Java 9 Programming Blueprints

Making our JAR file fat

With that, our implementation is now complete. Before this can be used in the way we intend, though, we need to make a build change. If you recall the discussion of the requirements at the beginning of the chapter, we want to build a system that easily allows third-party developers to write modules that will add support for arbitrary social networks without the need to modify the core application. To deliver that functionality, these developers would need to offer a JAR that Sunago users could drop in a folder. When the application is started, the new functionality is now available.

That leaves us, then, with the task of bundling all of the required code. As the project stands now, a single JAR is created, which holds ...