diff --git a/mustang/pom.xml b/mustang/pom.xml
index 09321898..43d45fa2 100644
--- a/mustang/pom.xml
+++ b/mustang/pom.xml
@@ -14,14 +14,45 @@
     <name>Mustang</name>
     <description>The Mustang project is a java library to read and write ZUGFeRD meta data inside your invoice PDFs</description>
     <url>http://www.mustangproject.org/</url>
-
+<build>
+<plugins>
+  <plugin>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+      <version>2.4.3</version>
+      <configuration>
+                  <minimizeJar>true</minimizeJar>
+              </configuration>
+      <executions>
+        <execution>
+          <phase>package</phase>
+          <goals>
+            <goal>shade</goal>
+          </goals>
+          <configuration>
+            <artifactSet>
+              <excludes>
+                <!--exclude>classworlds:classworlds</exclude>
+                <exclude>junit:junit</exclude>
+                <exclude>jmock:*</exclude>
+                <exclude>*:xml-apis</exclude>
+                <exclude>org.apache.maven:lib:tests</exclude>
+                <exclude>log4j:log4j:jar:</exclude-->
+              </excludes>
+            </artifactSet>
+          </configuration>
+        </execution>
+      </executions>
+    </plugin>
+</plugins>
+</build>
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
             <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
             <version>2.2.11</version>
         </dependency>
-        
+
         <dependency>
 	    <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
 	    <artifactId>preflight</artifactId>