backend developments
After many attempts to get the best uber-jar possible with sbt, I have eventually found that it is much easier to use sbt-native-packager It can be added through an sbt plugin in project/plugins.sbt file: addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbt" % "sbt-native-packager" % "1.2.0-M9") and enabled in build.sbt file: enablePlugins(JavaAppPackaging) Creating a package complete with shell script is as easy as running the sbt command: sbt universal:packageZipTarball This file can then be uploaded to the server, unzipped and then the app run: