L16: Final Project: Packaging and Distributing the AI Chat CLI

Lesson in Preparation (WIP)

This lesson is currently undergoing pedagogical drafting and development. It will soon be available with detailed visual diagrams, in-depth explanations, and its corresponding milestone in the AI Chat CLI incremental lab.

What will you learn in this lesson?

In this lesson we will explore:

• Deep Theory: Assembling the complete system architecture, console application lifecycle, JVM Shutdown Hooks for graceful exit, and packaging standalone executable binaries (Shadow / Fat JAR) with Gradle.
• Under the Hood: How Fat JAR packaging bundles all transitive dependencies (Kotlin Standard Library, Coroutines, etc.) into a single executable .jar file with a configured MANIFEST.MF.
• Incremental Lab (AI Chat CLI): Compiling, verifying end-to-end, and distributing your standalone, production-ready AI Assistant CLI tool.

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