Why maven does not include dependencies in resulting jar - maven

Question

I am trying to build an uber jar with maven-shade-plugin 2.1. I expect it to include all the classes in my jar and dependency jars. But I see that it does not include classes from dependency jars. What could I be doing wrong? Following is my usage of maven-shade-plugin in pom.xml. Could it be because finalName is same as project.artifactid?
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<configuration>
<filters>
<filter>
<artifact>*:*</artifact>
<excludes>
<exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
<exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
<exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
</excludes>
</filter>
</filters>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<minimizeJar>false</minimizeJar>
<transformers>
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
</transformer>
</transformers>
<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Answer 1

I tested your code and it works if it is inside <build> <plugins>, like this :
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- your code here -->
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
All dependencies are correctly included in the final jar. Also, make sure the dependencies you want to include in the shaded jar are inside the <dependencies> element, not the <dependencyManagement> element.