I really would like to get better as using Maven (and by "better", I mean using it at all). I'm so tired of manually clicking through the dependency graph in the maven repository (which inevitably has loads of circular references). Exhausting! Thanks for making the concept of Maven seem not so daunting.

Thanks Ben! So glad that you found the post useful and took the time to comment!

The number of times that you've explained a concept for me is certainly in the dozens - probably over 100 - so it's awesome to be able to return the favor, even if only in a small way.

FWIW, there was a Udemy course (that I didn't come close to finishing) which at least helped a bit with my understanding of Maven: https://www.udemy.com/course/apache-maven-beginner-to-guru

I don't think I said that ACF wouldn't work with the uber JAR. Was there part of the article that seemed to imply that? Or is it because I didn't include it in the repository?

I actually didn't try it, so it's good to know that it works!

Ha you're right, now that I go back over it. I'm not sure how I made away with that. I must have taken that from either something I saw in Ben's article or another while I was cross referencing things. Now that I think about it, it's possible the issue I was seeing with an older version was the SLF4J conflict and I just assumed it was something else. All good!

Hey, Matt. Just came across this article and was curious about ACF not working with the uber JAR you were building, so started messing with it. Not sure what changed between 1.6.6 and the latest version (1.6.8) to resolve the policy error, but it looks like everything runs just fine with an uber JAR created from that version.