maven-shade-plugin doesn't replace the original jar

Question

It is weird that my maven-shade-plugin doesn't replace the original jar with the shaded jar. Does anyone know what could be the reason?

Here's my plugin in pom.xml

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${plugin.shade.version}</version>
    <configuration>
      <artifactSet>
        <excludes>
          <!-- Leave slf4j unshaded so downstream users can configure logging. -->
          <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-api</exclude>
          <exclude>org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12</exclude>
          <!-- Leave commons-logging unshaded so downstream users can configure logging. -->
          <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging</exclude>
          <!-- Leave commons-exec unshaded so downstream users can use ProcessLauncher. -->
          <exclude>org.apache.commons:commons-exec</exclude>
          <!-- Leave log4j unshaded so downstream users can configure logging. -->
          <exclude>log4j:log4j</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </artifactSet>
      <filters>
        <filter>
          <artifact>*:*</artifact>
          <excludes>
            <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
            <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
            <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
          </excludes>
        </filter>
      </filters>
      <transformers>
        <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer" />
        <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
          <resource>reference.conf</resource>
        </transformer>
        <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheLicenseResourceTransformer"/>
        <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.DontIncludeResourceTransformer">
          <resource>NOTICE.txt</resource>
        </transformer>
        <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.IncludeResourceTransformer">
          <resource>META-INF/LICENSE.txt</resource>
          <file>${basedir}/../../LICENSE.txt</file>
        </transformer>
        <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.IncludeResourceTransformer">
          <resource>META-INF/NOTICE.txt</resource>
          <file>${basedir}/../../NOTICE.txt</file>
        </transformer>
      </transformers>
      <relocations>
        <relocation>
          <pattern>org</pattern>
          <shadedPattern>${shaded.dependency.prefix}.org</shadedPattern>
          <excludes>
            <exclude>org/apache/zeppelin/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/zeppelin/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/thrift/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/thrift/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/slf4j/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/slf4j/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/commons/logging/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/commons/logging/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/commons/exec/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/commons/exec/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/log4j/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/apache/log4j/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/sonatype/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/sonatype/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>**/pom.xml</exclude>

            <!-- Not the org/ packages that are a part of the jdk -->
            <exclude>org/ietf/jgss/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/omg/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/w3c/dom/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/w3c/dom/**/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/xml/sax/*</exclude>
            <exclude>org/xml/sax/**/*</exclude>
          </excludes>
        </relocation>
        <relocation>
          <pattern>com.google</pattern>
          <shadedPattern>${shaded.dependency.prefix}.com.google</shadedPattern>
        </relocation>
        <relocation>
          <pattern>io</pattern>
          <shadedPattern>${shaded.dependency.prefix}.io</shadedPattern>
        </relocation>
        <relocation>
          <pattern>com.esotericsoftware</pattern>
          <shadedPattern>${shaded.dependency.prefix}.com.esotericsoftware</shadedPattern>
        </relocation>
      </relocations>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>shade</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

Answer 1

Shaded plugin by default save original file as -original.jar, if you want to replace original file with the new generated (shaded), put this line in your configuration plugin section:

<configuration>
    ...

    <outputFile>${output.directory}\${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar</outputFile>
    ...
</configuration>

Replace output.directory with your shade plugin outputDirectory.

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