I’ve been tasked with converting an Ant build to Maven. I’m not experienced with maven at all. I have for the most part been able to create the jar file “cem_rvtool.jar” that Ant was building, however, there are some missing dependencies in the jar file when I inspect it with a diff tool, Beyond Compare.

My project directory looks something like this:

project
 - src
 - target
   - jar files

I need those jar files to be packaged into the final jar, placed at the root directory. I’ve been doing a lot of research but haven’t found a way to get this to work. Here is the pom file that I’m working with at the moment.

        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
                    <descriptorRefs>
                        <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
                    </descriptorRefs>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <mainClass>org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader</mainClass>
                        </manifest>
                        <manifestEntries>
                            <Build-Version-ID>${cem.build.version.id}</Build-Version-ID>
                            <Build-Timestamp>${timestamp}</Build-Timestamp>
                            <Rsrc-Main-Class>gov.cms.ccem.releasetool.RVToolLauncher</Rsrc-Main-Class>
                            <Rsrc-Class-Path>./ jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar ${jarfile.commons.beanutils} ${jarfile.commons.logging} ${jarfile.commons.lang} ${jarfile.commons.text} ${jarfile.slf4j.api} ${jarfile.log4j.api} ${jarfile.log4j.core} ${jarfile.log4j.slf4j.impl}</Rsrc-Class-Path>
                            <Class-Path>.</Class-Path>
                        </manifestEntries>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>make-assembly</id>
                        <phase>package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>single</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>copy-dependencies</id>
                        <phase>prepare-package</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>
                                ${project.build.directory}
                            </outputDirectory>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.8</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>install</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <target>
                                <copy file="target/cem_rvtool.jar" tofile="../../deploy/cem_rvtool.jar"/>
                            </target>
                        </configuration>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>run</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.2.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>initialize</phase>
                        <goals>
                        <goal>read-project-properties</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                        <files>
                            <file>project.properties</file>
                            <file>cem.properties</file>
                        </files>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <includes>
                        <include>gov/cms/ccem/releasetool/*</include>
                        <include>resources/*</include>
                        <include>../*</include> <!-- Trying to capture jars -->
                        <include>../*.jar</include> <!-- Trying to capture jars -->
                    </includes>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>javax</exclude>
                    </excludes>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>

Coincidentally, the jar files that I need to include are the dependencies listed above the plugins section (not shown). Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.