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It is quite annoying that the Shadow plugin used a method named

component

here while it does not mutate the component at all but instead messes with the publication. Note that doing that means that the POM and GMM files are out of sync. So indeed you should rely on the

java

component, properly configured to publish the

shadow

jar as its main artifact.

it's annoyed me for years. Finally decided to try to configure it properly after I found a very random mention of "shadowRuntimeElements" in the changelog for Shadow 6.0! The shadow docs still only discuss the older method, though. Very frustrating.