Usefulness

When EasyPack Maven plugin is useful

Though it can be used for any type of Java application, there are three scenarios where fits best.

• Desktop applications: Java desktops applications that requires several jars and files to be distributed all together.

• Web applications with embedded server: It is very common to distribute a Web application not as a war but as a tar (or zip or tar.gz) with an embedded server (like tomcat or jetty) so no application server is required to be installed in the final host (besides other advantages).

• Software for software: Software tools for supporting applications, like Servlet containers (tomcat, jetty, etc), NoSql databases (like Cassandra), search engines (like Solr), build tools (like Maven) and more.