1. Create an uber-JAR (shaded JAR) by adding the Maven shade plugin to the pom.xml file, as shown here:

Refer to the pom.xml file in this book's GitHub repository for more information: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Java-Deep-Learning-Cookbook/blob/master/10_Developing%20applications%20in%20distributed%20environment/sourceCode/cookbookapp/pom.xml. Add the following filter to the Maven configuration:

<filters>
   <filter>
    <artifact>*:*</artifact>
    <excludes>
     <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
     <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
     <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
    </excludes>
   </filter>
 </filters>

2. Hit the Maven command to build an uber-JAR for the project:

mvn package -DskipTests