Painless Packaging for Java

Shrinkwrap provides a simple mechanism to assemble archives like JARs, WARs, and EARs with a friendly, fluent API.

JavaArchive archive = ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class,"archive.jar")
   .addClasses(MyClass.class,MyOtherClass.class)
   .addResource("mystuff.properties");

From there you may deploy directly into any supported integration container like JBoss EmbeddedAS, GlassFish v3 Embedded, Jetty, or OpenEJB.  Or perhaps you'd like to export the archive to a file or exploded directory structure.  Maybe you'd prefer to serialize it over the network to a remote host.  The possibilities are limitless.

To boot, ShrinkWrap is the supported deployment mechanism of the Arquillian project, and together we render the testing of true enterprise components amiable as a puppy.  Where Java EE brought a POJO programming model to application development, we've brought it to testing.  You handle your business logic; we'll do the rest.

To foster community participation, the majority of documentation and examples are available through our Wiki.

Releases are available either via our Downloads section, or through the JBoss Maven Repository, which we recommend is configured in ${userHomeDir}/.m2/settings.xml:

<settings>
  ...
  <profiles>
    ...
    <profile>
      <id>jboss-public-repository</id>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>jboss-public-repository-group</id>
          <name>JBoss Public Maven Repository Group</name>
          <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
          <layout>default</layout>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>jboss-public-repository-group</id>
          <name>JBoss Public Maven Repository Group</name>
          <url>https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
          <layout>default</layout>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>

  </profiles>

  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>jboss-public-repository</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
  ...
</settings>

ShrinkWrap may then be declared as a dependency:

 <project>  
   ...     
   <dependencies>  
   ...      
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.shrinkwrap</groupId>
       <artifactId>shrinkwrap-api</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.shrinkwrap</groupId>
       <artifactId>shrinkwrap-impl-base</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope> <!-- Don't rely upon internals for compilation -->
     </dependency>
 ...    
 </dependencies>
 ...  
 </project>

Prerequisites

ShrinkWrap is designed to have a minimal dependency set.