A fat capsule plugin for sbt, see https://github.com/puniverse/capsule To build this code, get and install SBT from https://github.com/sbt/sbt Get and install these plugins before building: https://github.com/ritschwumm/xsbt-util https://github.com/ritschwumm/xsbt-classpath Build and publish the plugin: git clone git@github.com:ritschwumm/xsbt-capsule.git cd xsbt-capsule sbt publish-local Add the plugin to your project in project/plugins.sbt: addSbtPlugin("de.djini" % "xsbt-capsule" % <version>) Include the plugin in your project's build.sbt: capsuleMainClass := Some("my.Main") capsuleVmOptions := Seq("-Xmx128m") capsuleSystemProperties := Map.empty capsuleMinJavaVersion := Some("1.7.0") Run the capsule task to get a capsule jar.