A runnable, standalone Maven project

As we covered a lot of ground-related information to the Maven assembly plugin, let's see how to build a complete end-to-end runnable, standalone project with the assembly plugin. You can find the complete sample at https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/people/prabath/maven/chapter06. Proceed with the following steps:

1. First, create a directory structure in the following manner:

          |-pom.xml
          |-modules
            |- json-parser
               |- src/main/java/com/packt/json/JSONParser.java
               |- pom.xml
            |- distribution
               |- src/main/assembly/dist.xml
               |- pom.xml

2. JSONParser.java is a simple Java class, which reads a JSON file and prints to the console, shown as follows:

   package com.packt.json;
   
   import java.io.File;
   import java.io.FileReader;
   import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
   
   public class JSONParser {
   
     public static void main(String[] args) {
   
     FileReader fileReader;
     JSONObject json;
     org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser...