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Not 100% sure what you are after, but maybe you just search the

installDist

task?

I need simple way to run my application from the commandline without specify the classpath as Parameters (this part is solved with Class-Path in the Manifest file). The installDist seem to work, didn’t know that it includes the build task.

As your

main

distribution is configured, I guess you use the

application

plugin. If you do, you should not set the

Class-Path

attribute. If you want to run the application from source for testing purpose, either use the

run

task, or

installDist

and then there the start scripts. For productive run, build the distributable archive with

distZip

or

distTar

which you unpack at production site and then again ist the start scripts.