I was hoping to combine/embed Tomcat and my web app as onejar aka fat jar but I'm not sure if its possible. Its possible with Jetty using the Maven Shade plugin and Winstone but I tried something s...

Is there a way to add an arbitrary classpath entry to a JAR file manifest using onejar-maven-plugin? I found the way to configure maven-jar-plugin to do this, but it appears that there is no such ...

Edit: Question Rewritten: I created a new minimal example to illustrate my problem. First here is the source code of a simple class App.java: package testlog4j.testlog4j; import java.io.*; impo...

Having the following code broken deliberately to identify the source of a NullPointerException in something that should have been very simple but turns out to drive me nuts: Properties properties ...

I am stuck in a very common problem. I am plugging my jar (which has many dependencies on third party vendor) into an application server lib directory. If I just copy my jar along with its depende...

We're currently investigating the use of OneJar in our application (for a number reasons), but our application makes use of a number of custom URLClassloaders to load application extensions. When ...