A runnable standalone Maven project

Since we have covered a lot of ground-related information of the Maven assembly plugin, let's see how to build a complete end-to-end runnable standalone project with the assembly plugin. You can find the complete sample at https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/prabath/maven-mini/chapter06. Proceed with the following steps to create a runnable standalone Maven project:

  1. First, create a directory structure, as shown here:
           |-pom.xml
       |-modules
         |- json-parser
            |- src/main/java/com/packt/json/JSONParser.java
            |- pom.xml
         |- distribution
            |- src/main/assembly/dist.xml
            |- pom.xml
  2. The JSONParser.java file is a simple Java class, which reads a JSON file and prints to the console, as shown here:
    package com.packt.json; import ...

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