Apache Maven

Your project should be able to compile, package, and assemble a distribution. We recommend configuring the following Maven plugins:

exec-maven-plugin: execute a main class.
appassembler-maven-plugin: collects application dependencies and generates launcher scripts.
maven-assembly-plugin: creates Zip and Tar distributions.

You also have to configure the jreleaser-maven-plugin. A sample project may look like this:

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
  <artifactId>app</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>

  <name>app</name>
  <description>Sample app</description>
  <url>https://acme.com/app</url>
  <inceptionYear>2021</inceptionYear>

  <properties>
    <app.main.class>com.acme.Main</app.main.class>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
    <app.distribution.directory>${project.build.directory}/distributions/app</app.distribution.directory>
  </properties>

  <licenses>
    <license>
      <name>Apache-2.0</name>
      <url>https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html</url>
      <distribution>repo</distribution>
    </license>
  </licenses>

  <developers>
    <developer>
      <id>duke</id>
      <name>Java Duke</name>
    </developer>
  </developers>

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <mainClass>${app.main.class}</mainClass>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifest>
              <mainClass>${app.main.class}</mainClass>
            </manifest>
          </archive>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <assembleDirectory>${project.build.directory}/binary</assembleDirectory>
          <repositoryLayout>flat</repositoryLayout>
          <repositoryName>lib</repositoryName>
          <programs>
            <program>
              <mainClass>${app.main.class}</mainClass>
              <id>app</id>
            </program>
          </programs>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>make-distribution</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>assemble</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <attach>false</attach>
          <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
          <descriptors>
            <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
          </descriptors>
          <outputDirectory>${app.distribution.directory}</outputDirectory>
          <workDirectory>${project.build.directory}/assembly/work</workDirectory>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>make-distribution</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>single</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.jreleaser</groupId>
        <artifactId>jreleaser-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>0.9.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <configuration>
          <jreleaser>
            <project>
              <java>
                <mainClass>${app.main.class}</mainClass>
              </java>
            </project>
            <release>
              <github>
                <owner>duke</owner>
                <overwrite>true</overwrite>
              </github>
            </release>
            <distributions>
              <app>
                <artifacts>
                  <artifact>
                    <path>
                      ${app.distribution.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.zip
                    </path>
                  </artifact>
                  <artifact>
                    <path>
                      ${app.distribution.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.tar.gz
                    </path>
                  </artifact>
                </artifacts>
              </app>
            </distributions>
          </jreleaser>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Make adjustments as needed. Once you have edited the pom.xml you may verify its configuration by invoking

$ mvn jreleaser:config

At any time you may invoke any of the other commands, but when it’s time to make a release you have to invoke

$ mvn jreleaser:full-release
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ----------------------------< com.acme:app >----------------------------
[INFO] Building app 1.0.0
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:resources (default-resources) @ app ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Home/duke/app/src/main/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:compile (default-compile) @ app ---
[INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module!
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to /Home/duke/app/target/classes
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.6:testResources (default-testResources) @ app ---
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Home/duke/app/src/test/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ app ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) @ app ---
[INFO] No tests to run.
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:3.2.0:jar (default-jar) @ app ---
[INFO] Building jar: /Home/duke/app/target/app-1.0.0.jar
[INFO]
[INFO] --- appassembler-maven-plugin:2.1.0:assemble (make-distribution) @ app ---
[INFO] Installing artifact /Home/duke/app/target/app-1.0.0.jar to /Home/duke/app/target/binary/lib/app-1.0.0.jar
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-assembly-plugin:3.2.0:single (make-distribution) @ app ---
[INFO] Reading assembly descriptor: src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
[INFO] Building tar: /Home/duke/app/target/distributions/app/app-1.0.0.tar.gz
[INFO] Building zip: /Home/duke/app/target/distributions/app/app-1.0.0.zip
[INFO] Copying files to /Home/duke/app/target/distributions/app/app-1.0.0
[INFO]
[INFO] --- jreleaser-maven-plugin:0.9.1-SNAPSHOT:full-release (default-cli) @ app ---
[INFO] JReleaser 0.9.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]   - basedir set to /Home/duke/app
[INFO] Loading properties from /Home/duke/.jreleaser/config.properties
[INFO] Validating configuration
[INFO] Project version set to 1.0.0
[INFO] Release is not snapshot
[INFO] Timestamp is 2021-03-28T12:25:16.219+02:00
[INFO] HEAD is at c3e39f1
[INFO] Platform is osx-x86_64
[INFO] dryrun set to false
[INFO] Generating changelog: out/jreleaser/release/CHANGELOG.md
[INFO] Calculating checksums
[INFO]   [checksum] target/distributions/app/app-1.0.0.zip
[INFO] Signing files
[INFO] Signing is not enabled. Skipping
[INFO] Uploading is not enabled. Skipping.
[INFO] Releasing to https://github.com/duke/app
[INFO]  - Uploading app-1.0.0.zip
[INFO]  - Uploading checksums.txt
[INFO] Preparing distributions
[INFO]   - Preparing app distribution
[INFO] Packaging distributions
[INFO]   - Packaging app distribution
[INFO] Publishing distributions
[INFO]   - Publishing app distribution
[INFO] Announcing release
[INFO] Announcing is not enabled. Skipping.
[INFO] JReleaser succeeded after 0.894s
[INFO] Writing output properties to out/jreleaser/output.properties
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

This command performs the following actions:

checksums all artifacts.
signs all files (if signing is enabled).
creates a release at the chosen Git repository.
prepares, packages, and uploads configured packagers (brew, jbang, etc).
announces the release (if configured).