To create jar packaging of Java project with maven 2 based, we used a plugin called: maven-jar with simply paste the code below in pom.xml of plugins section: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> <configuration> <archive> <manifest> <addClasspath>true</addClasspath> </manifest> </archive> </configuration> </plugin> And if you want to add in your jar’s MANIFEST info, you can directly modify…