Ability to assembly fat jar rather than put all dependent jars into lib-directory

[dnrusakov]

Now all dependent libs are in lib-directory and provided via class path during the app starts:
java -cp lib1.jar:lib2.jar:lib3.jar:libN.jar
It would be great to have an ability of fat-jar generating. For example by using something like "sbt debian:packageFatJar" command.

Thank you

[muuki88]

AFAIK this can already be achieved by configuration. You need a plugin like sbt-assembly to create your fat-jar and then override the package mappings described here

It should be something like this

import AssemblyKeys._

assemblySettings

mappings in Universal <+= (assembly in Compile) map { jar =>
  jar -> ("lib/" + jar.getName)
}

If this (or something similar works) you could provide a small page in the detailed topics session if you like :)

[dnrusakov]

I will try and publish results here later if it will work...

[muuki88]

@dnrusakov any progress on this?

[rpomeroy]

I'm also need to support this style of packaging. Any luck?

[muuki88]

So. I wrote an example for this here.

At some point I hope to add this as an AutoPlugin to NativePacakger itself. #356