IntelliJ IDEA: how to put maven dependency into correct location of builded artifact

Question

I have java project in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.3, that I am building into jar file (Build -> build artifacts... -> build), everything works well until I wanted to use external library (org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.4), well no big deal, it work in IDE. But the extracted jar need that dependency. How to do that?

I have tried do Project structure -> Project Settings -> Artifacts -> and add as library.

Look at jar artifact:

The wanted dependecy jar is located in root folder of jar artifact, but still get this error, when try to use that code.

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils
....
....
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 37 more

What have I missed?

Answer 1

As I mentioned in comment above, I have used my custom implementation instead of using whole library.

But in another project I have just run into same issue, this time with nanohttpd , which of course is not easy to implement myself like in previous usage :D

I have found that the order of creation of artifact/maven dependency matters Because I have first added dependency like before, but before creating config for artifact.

And voilà, dependency has been extracted and the final artifactory works well :)