Описание тега maven-assembly-plugin
The Assembly Plugin for Maven is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files into a single distributable archive.
The maven-assembly-plugin supports creating of different kind of archives like zip, tar, tar.gz etc. using the assembly:single goal. One can include not only project resources, but also dependencies and arbitrary content, making this a very versatile plugin.
More information on the Maven Assembly Plugin can be found at its home page.