title: deploying a maven project
body: <p>I have a maven project and I'd like to create a distribution of it with the dependencies. I've tried the maven-assembly-plugin and built the jar with dependencies, but that unpacked all of the jars and repackaged them all into a big, single jar. What I'd like is something like my jar file and a lib folder that has all of the dependencies. Then when I run it, I could run "java -cp lib/* my.package.MainClass".</p>
  
  <p>What's the best way to go about doing this with maven? Or the recommended way to deploy?</p>
  
  <p>thanks,</p>
  
  <p>Jeff</p>