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Creating a JAR File from a Maven Project that contains txt files

I've managed to create a jar file from a maven project in netbeans. However, my code references txt files that are in my project, so when I try to execute my Jar File on the command prompt I get an error saying that the it could not find the txt file.
This is the current structure of my pom.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>mavenproject3</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
<configuration>
<!-- get all project dependencies -->
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<!-- MainClass in mainfest make a executable jar -->
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.mycompany.mavenproject3.SSBStub</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.tomakehurst</groupId>
<artifactId>wiremock-standalone</artifactId>
<version>2.17.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Is there anything I can do to the pom.xml file so that this error goes away?
Currently my txt files are in the following directory: src/text/__files/

To include files into your JAR, you can use the Maven Resource Plugin. It basically takes all files from a directory (by default src/main/resources) and puts them into your output JAR.
From the examples page of the Resources plugin:
By default, Maven will look for your project's resources under
src/main/resources. However, all your resources may not be in
src/main/resources. Thus, you'd have to specify those directories by
adding the following to your POM.
<project>
...
<build>
...
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>[your folder here]</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
...
</build>
...
</project>

spring boot package does not exist error

I'm compiling my project with mvn clean package, and failed with package does not exist.
The detail command:
Get the jar file target/xxxx.jar by running mvn clean package in source project.
install this jar file by running mvn install:install-file -Dfile=lib/xxxx.jar -DgroupId=com.company -DartifactId=source-package-name -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar
add code to target project, which will use some functions in source project
compile target project by running mvn clean package, and it just failed with package does not exist
here is the source project pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>source-package-name</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>source-package-name</name>
<description>xxxx</description>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.3.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<argLine>-Xmx6144m</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
here is the target project pom.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>target-package-name</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>target-package-name</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<jdk.version>1.7</jdk.version>
<smartv-common.version>0.3.5s</smartv-common.version>
<spring.version>3.0.5.RELEASE</spring.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
</dependencies>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<!-- Exclude those since they are copied from the profile folder for
the build -->
<exclude>system.properties</exclude>
</excludes>
<filtering>false</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
<finalName>xxxxx</finalName>
<!-- Set a compiler level -->
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>kr.motd.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>os-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1.Final</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6</version>
<configuration>
<!-- http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/adding-filtering-webresources.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12729513/how-to-overwrite-files-in-the-war-file-during-maven-build -->
<webResources>
<!-- Resources from the activated profile folder -->
<resource>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes/</targetPath>
<includes>
<include>system.properties</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Ideally, you shouldn't use a Spring Boot application (something that's been repackaged) as a dependency. From the documentation:
Like a war file, a Spring Boot application is not intended to be used as a dependency. If your application contains classes that you want to share with other projects, the recommended approach is to move that code into a separate module. The separate module can then be depended upon by your application and other projects.
If the proposed solution isn't possible in your situation, the documentation goes on to describe an alternative:
If you cannot rearrange your code as recommended above, Spring Boot’s Maven and Gradle plugins must be configured to produce a separate artifact that is suitable for use as a dependency. The executable archive cannot be used as a dependency as the executable jar format packages application classes in BOOT-INF/classes. This means that they cannot be found when the executable jar is used as a dependency.
To produce the two artifacts, one that can be used as a dependency and one that is executable, a classifier must be specified. This classifier is applied to the name of the executable archive, leaving the default archive for use as dependency.
To configure a classifier of exec in Maven, the following configuration can be used:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<classifier>exec</classifier>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Maven build does not compile

I am trying to compile a maven project but I get the following error:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.6.0:java (default-cli) on project storm-example: The parameters 'mainClass' for goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.6.0:java are missing or invalid -> [Help 1]
I am new to maven projects actually. The thing is I am not using the codehous.mojo plugin at all. From what I saw from different existing issues, the people who got this were using the mojo plugin in the build, but in my case i just need the maven-assembly-plugin. Do I need mojo in every maven object despite not explicitly needing it?
The following is my maven pom.xml file
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.learningstorm</groupId>
<artifactId>storm-example</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>storm-example</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.storm</groupId>
<artifactId>storm-core</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>clojars.org</id>
<url>http://clojars.org/repo</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass />
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

The error is a complaint about your following tag in the maven-assembly-plugin's configuration :
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass />
</manifest>
</archive>
Unless you want to create an executable jar (in which case you should specify the qualified name of the "main" class), you should just remove the whole <archive> tag.
It looks like you've based your work around the "Creating an Executable JAR"
example of the maven-assembly-plugin's usage page while you might only need what is defined in the first basic example.

Why doesn't the maven ear plugin include files I put in src/main/resources?

I have a dead simple pom:
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.sandbox</groupId>
<name>Sandbox</name>
<artifactId>Sandbox</artifactId>
<version>7.0</version>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
...
</dependencies>
</project>
When the packaging is marked as "jar", it gets all the resources at src/main/resources. But if the packaging is marked as "ear", it doesn't get any of those resources in the packaging. The reason I want to do this is because I want a glassfish-resources.xml file to be in my ear's META-INF directory. This is a valid place to put the file.

Maven pom.xml - build modules + self build

I have the next project structure:
app
module1
module2
...
moduleN
parent-pom
Project app contains only properties files and JasperReports's reports templates. Pom.xml of app:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>my-group</groupId>
<artifactId>parent-pom</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<relativePath>../parent-pom</relativePath>
</parent>
<artifactId>app</artifactId>
<version>${app-version}</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<modules>
<module>../module1</module>
<module>../module2</module>
...
<module>../moduleN</module>
</modules>
I want to add jasperreports-maven-plugin for project app. I've tried next code (before <modules> section), but it doesn't work (self build wasn't called):
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/config/templates</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/config/templates</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile-reports</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>${jasperreports.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Is it possible to add self build to pom with modules?

The app project packaging is set to pom - so it can't have any other artifacts. You will need to move the jasper reports to one of the other modules or a separate module.