Java, Gradle, Shadow and FatJar or UberJar

Say you want to build an executable Jar file - one that can execute from the command line
so:

$java -jar /path/to/myFile.jar

Below is a build.gradle that does this for you, using Maven as an artefact repository and the Shadow Gradle adding

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plugins {
    // Apply the java plugin to add support for Java
    id 'java'
    id 'com.github.johnrengelman.shadow' version '5.1.0'    
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

sourceSets {
main {
java {
srcDir 'src'
}
resources{
      srcDir 'config'
      srcDir 'lib'
    }
}
}

java{
targetCompatibility  = JavaVersion.toVersion(10)
sourceCompatibility  = JavaVersion.toVersion(10)
}


shadowJar{
classifier = null
manifest{
attributes 'Main-Class':'com.alignmentsystems.engine.Worker'
attributes 'class-path':'.'
attributes 'Version':'0.9.1.' 
}
 }

dependencies {
implementation 'org.apache.mina:mina-core:2.0.9'
implementation 'ch.qos.logback:logback-core:1.1.3'
implementation 'ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.1.3'
implementation 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.21'
}
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