title: How to create a non-executable JAR file that includes all Maven dependencies
body: <p>I have a Java project that doesn't have a main file but it has a lot of Maven dependencies.</p>
  <p>How I can create a JAR-file that contains my source-code and required maven dependencies?</p>
  <p>My pom.xml:</p>
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;project xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&quot;
      xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;
      xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd&quot;&gt;
      &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;NetworkCommunicationAPI&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;NetworkCommunicationAPI&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;sourceDirectory&gt;src&lt;/sourceDirectory&gt;
          &lt;plugins&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
                  &lt;configuration&gt;
                      &lt;source&gt;1.8&lt;/source&gt;
                      &lt;target&gt;1.8&lt;/target&gt;
                  &lt;/configuration&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
              &lt;plugin&gt;
                  &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-assembly-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                  &lt;configuration&gt;
                      &lt;descriptorRefs&gt;
                          &lt;descriptorRef&gt;jar-with-dependencies&lt;/descriptorRef&gt;
                      &lt;/descriptorRefs&gt;
                  &lt;/configuration&gt;
              &lt;/plugin&gt;
          &lt;/plugins&gt;
      &lt;/build&gt;
      &lt;dependencies&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.json&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;json&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;20210307&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
      &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>