A runnable standalone Maven project

Since we have covered a lot of ground-related information of 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-mini/chapter06. Proceed with the following steps to create a runnable standalone Maven project:

1. First, create a directory structure, as shown here:

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

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

   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...