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It seems even when you use maven archetypes like maven-archetype-quickstart or maven-archetype-simple, setting the mainClass manifest seems to be still something one has to do manually. However, going to the Q&A that provides the necessary POM entry and copy-pasting it seems inefficient. Is there some maven command or some other tool to set it? Or is there some archetype that already contains this entry?

Yushin Washio
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  • You could create your own archetype. You can set up a project with the necessary configuration and generate an archetype from it. – J Fabian Meier Apr 29 '18 at 19:16
  • Thanks, I was wondering if that’s even a good idea, since the quickstart archetype notably omits it although it contains a class with a main function. – Yushin Washio Apr 29 '18 at 19:25
  • Does that really makes sense cause usually in each project the main class is different? Isn't it? – khmarbaise Apr 29 '18 at 19:45
  • @khmarbaise I wouldn’t even mind manually editing pom.xml, if it’s just the name of the class. (whenever I want to name the class not "App" as in the archetype) I just don’t like typing in the whole tree for "maven-jar-plugin" plugin. – Yushin Washio Apr 29 '18 at 23:15

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