semantics of shade and assembly plugins

[Arun Ramakrishnan <si...@gmail.com>]

I am trying to understand the difference in functionality of shade and
assembly plugins.
I understand shades one and only goal is to give isolated namespace to the
dependencies while creating a uber jar.

Now, is the assembly plugin a superset of functionality of the shade plugin
?

I use shade in some projects and assembly in others and I seem to be coming
across some issue or the other frequently. So, am trying to start be
understanding the differences.


thanks
Arun