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How to create a fat jar?

With SpringBoot, you have the #SpringBootApplication annotation, but what is the equivalent with the neat Java Spark framework?
IntelliJ creates a Maven project and I added the spark dependency, but running the install goal, I get a 5 KB jar with no manifest. Not an executable jar.
The pom.xml created thus far is as follows:
<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>sparkdemo</groupId>
<artifactId>sparkdemo</artifactId>
<version>1.0 </version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>sparkdemo</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>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sparkjava</groupId>
<artifactId>spark-core</artifactId>
<version>2.5.4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<configuration>
<source>${java.version}</source>
<target>${java.version}</target>
<optimize>true</optimize>
<debug>true</debug>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Would appreciate any suggestions....Thanks!

What you need here is an executable jar that will not only contain your classes, but also classes from all your dependencies.
For that you can use the Maven Assembly Plugin.
See the sample code below.
<project>
[...]
<build>
[...]
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>org.sample.App</mainClass> // specify your main class here
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id> <!-- this is used for inheritance merges -->
<phase>package</phase> <!-- bind to the packaging phase -->
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
[...]
</project>
Then, run mvn package and the executable jar should be located in the folder target (with a name like ProjectName-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar).

Looks like you are looking for maven assembly plugin
Add this in the plugin section and run mvn package
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>assemble-all</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

How to avoid the generation of default jar when specifying a final name?

We are using maven profile to build a jar specific to tomcat.
<profile>
<id>TOMCAT</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-jar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}-tomcat-${project.version}</finalName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
<artifactId>activemq-core</artifactId>
<version>5.7.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-j2ee-management_1.1_spec</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.javaee</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-jms-api</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
My expectation is to create a single jar with name acme-tomcat-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar but on building the project, maven is generating another one (a default one) acme-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar. How can we avoid the generation of the second one (acme-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar)?
Thanks

I've only used Maven a few times to build projects, and I've generated WARs for Tomcat instead of JARs, but the process should be similar.
My build looks like this:
<build>
<finalName>sb</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
The header at the top goes like this:
<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>org.majisto.socialbusiness</groupId>
<artifactId>socialbusiness</artifactId>
<version>0.0.2</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>socialbusiness</name>
I imagine if you switch the packaging row to JAR you should get one JAR file out of it. The finalName in the build determines the filename and I think where you have it might be the confusing part to Maven. Let me know if you have any other questions. Maven made working with Spring so much easier. Are you using "maven package" in the CLI?

By changing the build section in the profile section from
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-jar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}-tomcat-${project.version}</finalName>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
to
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}-tomcat-${project.version}</finalName>
</build>
helped me to solve this issue

maven user library not packaged in my runnable jar

I'm now programming Java for a year and had to take over several projects from a previous programmer. I'm not a programming newby since I started with .NET programming in 1998. Now for a Java project, I need to support 24 versions (and rising) of a base library (all the same structure but they are specific for a version of the 3th party application).
I started with Maven two days ago and tried this on a small demo workspace in order to learn Maven and get the required things working.
Each supported version has several jars which I encapsulated in a user library.
To make a build, I would need to modify this library to the correct version and do an export of the project as a Runnable-Jar (everything include in the jar due to license requirements).
So I created my first POM and here it is:
<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>PPC</groupId>
<artifactId>PPC</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>PPC</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.16</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>LibraryProject</groupId>
<artifactId>LibraryProject</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies> <profiles>
<profile>
<id>PPC_8.1</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<build>
<finalName>PPC_8.1</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<compilerVersion>1.7</compilerVersion>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<version>2.10</version>
<configuration>
<classpathContainers>
<classpathContainer>org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER</classpathContainer>
<classpathContainer>org.eclipse.jdt.USER_LIBRARY/Primavera-P6-8.1</classpathContainer>
</classpathContainers>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.dstovall</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.company.main.App</mainClass>
<onejarVersion>0.97</onejarVersion>
<attachToBuild>true</attachToBuild>
<classifier>onejar</classifier>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>one-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>PPC_7.0</id>
<build>
<finalName>PPC_7.0</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<compilerVersion>1.7</compilerVersion>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<configuration>
<classpathContainers>
<classpathContainer>org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER</classpathContainer>
<classpathContainer>org.eclipse.jdt.USER_LIBRARY/Primavera-P6-7.0</classpathContainer>
</classpathContainers>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.dstovall</groupId>
<artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.company.main.App</mainClass>
<onejarVersion>0.97</onejarVersion>
<attachToBuild>true</attachToBuild>
<classifier>onejar</classifier>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>one-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com</id>
<url>http://onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
As you can see, I have two profiles. One for v8.1 and one for v7.0.
My 'build' flow:
I run 'mvn install' on the libraryProject first.
Then I run 'mvn package' on the main project. This one build v8.1 (Default profile) as a runnable jar with all depencies in it except the user library.
The next call is 'mvn package -PPPC_7.0' which builds v7.0 without the user library.
So my question: What can I change/doing wrong so the user library is added to the runnable jar for each profile?
Thanks in advance,
Jo
PS: I'm using Eclipse Luna (Java EE IDE)

What I use is:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.clouway.App</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-my-jar-with-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
`
Good luck!

Robby Cornelissen commented a suggestion a while back:
Any chance of just packaging that up and using it as a dependency? That would definitely solve your problem... – Robby Cornelissen Jun 11 at 8:52
I didn't want to do that, but I did not receive new suggestions (and did not find a solution myself).
So I packaged them as suggested and added them as dependency.
This is working for me now.
Thanks and until next time
Jo

Java project compiles with Maven but Eclipse still shows errors

I am new to Maven and an using it to build my Java project. I have two questions:
I was able to successfully compile my project with Maven but Eclipse still reports compile time errors. I know these errors are because I have not added external jars to Eclipse's build path, but is there any other way I can resolve these errors?
How do I run my Java project with Maven?
Here's my 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.springhibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringHibernateAssignment</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SpringHibernateAssignment</name>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>com.springhibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringHibernateAssignment</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<file>${basedir}/lib/ojdbc14.jar</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings
only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>
org.apache.maven.plugins
</groupId>
<artifactId>
maven-install-plugin
</artifactId>
<versionRange>
[2.4,)
</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore></ignore>
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>

The m2e plug in for Eclipse will integrate Maven so that Eclipse will automatically include JAR's from the local Maven cache based on the contents of the POM.xml.
And excluding all Java source files explains why Maven's build succeeds without any dependencies.

Put the third party libraries as dependencies in your pom.xml.
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxr-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependencies>
You can find them in here.

If those jars you mention are public frameworks, you should be able to find them in the maven central repository and add them to your project just like Eranda explained. If you have jars that cannot be found publicly, you have to add them first to your local maven repo using maven install-file plugin: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html

May be your M2_Home is not set, can you confirm. You may be building the project from the command line not from the eclipse ( Guess).
Suggestions:
1. Set M2_HOME.
2. Clean or Build the Project from eclipse, it will add all your dependent jars to references

Install Jar Dependency to Local Repository as Part of Maven Build Process

I have a third-party jar that is a dependency of my project. Because of business constraints, I do not have access to an enterprise or company repository, which would definitely be my preference for this issue. But regardless, this third-party jar is not available publicly, and so it is included in the web project under src\main\resources.
This is a Maven project, and so I list this third-party jar as a compile time dependency, and include in my pom a build plugin that will install the third-party jar to my local repository as part of the build process; I tell Maven to perform this goal during the validate phase of the build lifecycle, which to my knowledge would be before any other Maven phase.
However, when I run a clean install and have my local repository cleared out, the build fails due to the third-party jar not being resolvable locally or in the Maven central repository. As far as I know, I have set up the pom correctly and I should be seeing Maven attempt to install the third-party jar locally before it begins dependency resolution.
The issue is that if the dependency is listed before the jar has ever been installed locally, the build will fail due to being unable to resolve that dependency. If I remove the third-party jar declaration and run the build, after dependency resolution occurs (which is the very first thing it does after the clean), but before any other phase, it will locally install the jar and things are fine. But to my knowledge, it should run the validate phase before it collects and resolves dependencies, and so the jar should be locally installed before it's resolved by Maven. Any ideas or thoughts?
My pom:
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Web Services</name>
<description>This project will handle communication.</description>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- This plugin installs the Evip jar from the project's resource folder to the local
repository for normal Maven consumption -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install-evip-jar</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<executable>mvn</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>install:install-file</argument>
<argument>-Dfile=${basedir}\src\main\resources\EVIPSoapServer.jar</argument>
<argument>-DgroupId=com.company</argument>
<argument>-DartifactId=EVIPSoapServer</argument>
<argument>-Dversion=1.0.0</argument>
<argument>-Dpackaging=jar</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<!-- EXCLUDE EVIPSOAPSERVER JAR FROM CLASSES DIRECTORY -->
<packagingExcludes>
${basedir}\src\main\resources\EVIPSoapServer.jar
</packagingExcludes>
<webResources>
<!-- INCLUDE SOURCE FILES WITH WAR -->
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- mvn clean install tomcat:run-war to deploy Look for "Running war
on http://xxx" and "Setting the server's publish address to be /yyy" in console
output; WSDL browser address will be concatenation of the two: http://xxx/yyy?wsdl -->
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-tomcat</id>
<goals>
<goal>run-war</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<port>${test.server.port}</port>
<path>/webservice</path>
<fork>true</fork>
<useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>true</useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<projectNameTemplate>[artifactId]-[version]</projectNameTemplate>
<wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
<wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings
only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>
org.codehaus.mojo
</groupId>
<artifactId>
exec-maven-plugin
</artifactId>
<versionRange>
[1.2.1,)
</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore></ignore>
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- COMPILE DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>EVIPSoapServer</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>3.0.7.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- PROVIDED/TEST DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

The solution from http://randomizedsort.blogspot.com.es/2011/10/configuring-maven-to-use-local-library.html is based on having a file-based, project-scoped maven repository. Thus, the library is under your source code versioning. Install is one-time manual process, rather than a something specified in the pom.xml file
Three steps:
Create a folder in your project where you will keep the repo. Say lib.
Use Maven to install your jar to the lib directory.
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=path_to_mylib.jar ^
-DgroupId=com.mylib ^
-DartifactId=mylib ^
-Dversion=1.0 ^
-Dpackaging=jar ^
-DlocalRepositoryPath=path_to_my_project/lib
3.Update your pom.xml
<repositories>
<repository>
<!-- DO NOT set id to "local" because it is reserved by Maven -->
<id>lib</id>
<url>file://${project.basedir}/lib</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.mylib</groupId>
<artifactId>mylib</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Saw this question while looking for a solution to a similar problem. I know it's old, but wanted to share my solution. I ended up solving my problem by using the maven-install-plugin directly:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>whatevs</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>${oracle.version}</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<file>${basedir}/dev-setup/lib/ojdbc6.jar</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Works perfectly.

I suggest you modeling the external dependency as a separate project (think of it as a wrapper). Your current project may then be dependent on your own project that as part of its build can download the external JAR and package it into its own distributable.

Alrighty, arguing and preference aside, I did go with Sander's recommendation; it was the only one that really worked without custom Mojos, etc. I have a parent Maven project with a packaging of type pom and all it does is install the third-party jar (which could be any number of jars or dependencies) to my local repository. The parent pom:
<?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>project-evip</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>EvipSoapServerJar</name>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<modules>
<module>webservices</module>
</modules>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- This plugin installs the Evip jar from the project's lib to the local
repository for normal Maven consumption -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install-evip-jar</id>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<executable>mvn</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>install:install-file</argument>
<argument>-Dfile=${basedir}\src\main\resources\EVIPSoapServer.jar</argument>
<argument>-DgroupId=com.company</argument>
<argument>-DartifactId=EVIPSoapServer</argument>
<argument>-Dversion=1.0.0</argument>
<argument>-Dpackaging=jar</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<!--This plugin's configuration is used to store Eclipse m2e settings
only. It has no influence on the Maven build itself. -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.m2e</groupId>
<artifactId>lifecycle-mapping</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<lifecycleMappingMetadata>
<pluginExecutions>
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>
org.codehaus.mojo
</groupId>
<artifactId>
exec-maven-plugin
</artifactId>
<versionRange>
[1.2.1,)
</versionRange>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore />
</action>
</pluginExecution>
</pluginExecutions>
</lifecycleMappingMetadata>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
Then, I created a Maven module under the parent Maven project and used the org.apache.cxf.archetype:cxf-jaxws-javafirst:2.7.7 archetype. I simply list the third-party jar as a compile-time dependency, and it's resolved and added to the resulting war. The child module's pom:
<?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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<artifactId>project-evip</artifactId>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>webservices</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Web Services</name>
<description>This project will handle communication.</description>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<webResources>
<!-- INCLUDE SOURCE FILES WITH WAR -->
<resource>
<directory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- mvn clean install tomcat:run-war to deploy Look for "Running war
on http://xxx" and "Setting the server's publish address to be /yyy" in console
output; WSDL browser address will be concatenation of the two: http://xxx/yyy?wsdl -->
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-tomcat</id>
<goals>
<goal>run-war</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<port>${test.server.port}</port>
<path>/webservice</path>
<fork>true</fork>
<useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>true</useSeparateTomcatClassLoader>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<projectNameTemplate>[artifactId]-[version]</projectNameTemplate>
<wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
<wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- COMPILE DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>EVIPSoapServer</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
<version>2.7.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>3.0.7.RELEASE</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- PROVIDED/TEST DEPENDENCIES -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
I appreciate all the help, thank you.

Corresponding to gregm's answer I'm using now:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
<artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.jar</file>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
This installs the JAR of the project itself to local repository.
Result:
--- maven-jar-plugin:2.3.2:jar (default-jar) # SportyLib ---
Building jar: ...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
--- maven-install-plugin:2.5.2:install (default-install) # SportyLib ---
Installing ...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar to .../.m2/repository/.../1.0-SNAPSHOT/...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Installing .../pom.xml to .../.m2/repository/.../1.0-SNAPSHOT/...-1.0-SNAPSHOT.pom