src/assembly/bin-distribution.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.1.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-2.1.0.xsd">
    <id>jar-with-dependencies-and-exclude-classes</id>
    <formats>
        <format>jar</format>
    </formats>
    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
    <dependencySets>
        <dependencySet>
            <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
            <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
            <unpack>true</unpack>
            <unpackOptions>
                <includes>
                    <include>opennlp/tools/util/Span.class</include>
                    <include>opennlp/tools/tokenize/Tokenizer.class</include>
                    <include>opennlp/tools/sentdetect/SentenceDetector.class</include>
                </includes>
            </unpackOptions>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependencySet>
    </dependencySets>
    <fileSets>
        <fileSet>
            <directory>${project.basedir}</directory>
            <outputDirectory>META-INF/</outputDirectory>
            <includes>
                <include>README*</include>
                <include>Readme*</include>
                <include>LICENSE*</include>
            </includes>
            <useDefaultExcludes>true</useDefaultExcludes>
        </fileSet>
        <fileSet>
            <outputDirectory>/</outputDirectory>
            <directory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</directory>
        </fileSet>
    </fileSets>
</assembly>