# Publishing Shadow JARs
# Publishing with Maven-Publish Plugin
The Shadow plugin will automatically configure the necessary tasks in the presence of Gradle's
maven-publish
plugin.
The plugin provides the component
method from the shadow
extension to configure the
publication with the necessary artifact and dependencies in the POM file.
// Publishing a Shadow JAR with the Maven-Publish Plugin
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
apply plugin: 'com.gradleup.shadow'
publishing {
publications {
shadow(MavenPublication) {
components.shadow
}
}
repositories {
maven {
url "http://repo.myorg.com"
}
}
}
# Shadow Configuration and Publishing
The Shadow plugin provides a custom configuration (configurations.shadow
) to specify
runtime dependencies that are not merged into the final JAR file.
When configuring publishing with the Shadow plugin, the dependencies in the shadow
configuration, are translated to become RUNTIME
scoped dependencies of the
published artifact.
No other dependencies are automatically configured for inclusion in the POM file.
For example, excluded dependencies are not automatically added to the POM file or
if the configuration for merging are modified by specifying
shadowJar.configurations = [configurations.myconfiguration]
, there is no automatic
configuration of the POM file.
This automatic configuration occurs only when using the above methods for configuring publishing. If this behavior is not desirable, then publishing must be manually configured.