Maven Shade Plugin not attaching shaded artifact - maven

Question

I'm trying to use the maven-shade-plugin to distinguish between Java 6 and Java 7 artifacts. My understanding from this link is that the original artifact will be replaced by the shaded one
[INFO] Replacing original artifact with shaded artifact.
[INFO] Replacing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar with /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-SHADED.jar
[INFO] Replacing original test artifact with shaded test artifact.
[INFO] Replacing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar with /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-SHADED-tests.jar
[INFO] Dependency-reduced POM written at: /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-install-plugin:2.4:install (default-install) # xml ---
[INFO] Installing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar to /Users/carlos/.m2/repository/com/company/xml/1.5.0-SNAPSHOT/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/dependency-reduced-pom.xml to /Users/carlos/.m2/repository/com/company/xml/1.5.0-SNAPSHOT/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
[INFO] Installing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar to /Users/carlos/.m2/repository/com/company/xml/1.5.0-SNAPSHOT/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar to /Users/carlos/.m2/repository/com/company/xml/1.5.0-SNAPSHOT/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar
[INFO] Installing /Users/carlos/path/Libraries/xml/target/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar to /Users/carlos/.m2/repository/com/company/xml/1.5.0-SNAPSHOT/xml-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT-tests.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 23.724 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-02-19T15:53:50-05:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 22M/631M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
However, it is installing without the SHADED classifier. Here is my shade plugin configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<shadeTestJar>true</shadeTestJar>
<shadedClassifierName>SHADED</shadedClassifierName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Can anyone tell me how to get it to install with the proper classifier? Also, I'm using this instead of the maven-jar-plugin because I need to be able to classify test jars as well.

Answer 1

You are missing <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached> in the plugin configuration. Without it, the shaded jar will remain the main artifact of your project, so the classifier won't be applied (because the main artifact does not have a classifier).
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<shadeTestJar>true</shadeTestJar>
<shadedClassifierName>SHADED</shadedClassifierName>
<shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>