diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c8996fe29..b793cc4c1 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -973,6 +973,64 @@
       </build>
     </profile>
 
+    <profile>
+      <!-- To be used during development. Run the command-->
+      <!-- mvn -Passembly package -->
+      <id>assembly</id>
+
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+
+          <!-- Creates the all inclusive uber jar -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.4</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <phase>package</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>shade</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
+                  <shadedClassifierName>all</shadedClassifierName>
+                  <transformers>
+                    <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
+                      <mainClass>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.Main</mainClass>
+                    </transformer>
+                  </transformers>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+
+          <!-- Creates the binary and source distributions -->
+          <plugin>
+            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.1</version>
+            <configuration>
+              <descriptors>
+                <descriptor>config/assembly-bin.xml</descriptor>
+                <descriptor>config/assembly-src.xml</descriptor>
+              </descriptors>
+              <tarLongFileMode>gnu</tarLongFileMode>
+            </configuration>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>make-bundle</id>
+                <phase>package</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>single</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+
+    </profile>
+
     
   </profiles>
 </project>