SHADE-JAR(1)

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version 6.5.1 · 5 versions
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💅 shade-jar — bestie's guide to renaming Java namespaces ✨

okay so real talk, this is shade-jar, from the Java Packages Tools girlies, and it's literally the glow-up station for your JAR files. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

shade-jar — renames the Java namespace inside a JAR file. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bin/shade-jar orig-namespace shaded-namespace in-jar out-jar

four things, in that order, no cap. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so shade-jar is the utility for changing JAR file namespaces. basically it goes through and replaces every single occurrence of the given pattern with the given replacement — like a find-and-replace but make it fashion. 💅

the replacement happens on class file names and inside the class files themselves. both. she does both. 🔥

and if you've heard people call this "shading" — yes bestie, that's exactly what this is. you already knew. iykyk. 🧚

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

shade-jar org.apache.log4j com.example.shaded.log4j
/usr/share/java/log4j.jar lib/shaded-log4j.jar

so what this does: it replaces all occurrences of org.apache.log4j in the JAR file /usr/share/java/log4j.jar with com.example.shaded.log4j, and stores the resulting JAR in lib/shaded-log4j.jar. iconic behaviour, honestly. 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

ngl, currently only class files get shaded. resources are not renamed. 😭 and it's worse — neither the contents of resource files nor manifests are processed. so like, know that going in. 🙈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Mikolaj Izdebski. thank you king, we appreciate you. 🌈

🍓 REPORTING BUGS 🍓

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie, report it through the Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github:

https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues

they want to hear from you fr fr. 🦋

JAVAPACKAGES · version dated 2026-05-28 · and that's the whole page, mwah 💋 stay shady ✨💖

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