diff --git a/demo/app/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml b/demo/app/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
index 1d9e8e4..ef8515d 100644
--- a/demo/app/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
+++ b/demo/app/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
  @version 1.0
 -->
 <assembly>
-	<id>plugin</id>
+	<id>app</id>
 	<formats>
 		<format>dir</format>
+		<format>zip</format>
 	</formats>
 	<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
 	<dependencySets>
@@ -26,6 +27,10 @@
             <includes>
                 <include>*.jar</include>
             </includes>
+            <excludes>
+                <exclude>*-javadoc.jar</exclude>
+				<exclude>*-sources.jar</exclude>
+            </excludes>
         </fileSet>
     </fileSets>
 </assembly>
diff --git a/run-demo.bat b/run-demo.bat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05c53df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run-demo.bat
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+REM
+REM This script creates and run the pf4j demo.
+REM
+
+REM create artifacts using maven
+call mvn clean package
+
+REM create demo-dist folder
+rmdir demo-dist /s /q
+mkdir demo-dist
+mkdir demo-dist\plugins
+
+REM copy artifacts to demo-dist folder
+xcopy demo\app\target\pf4j-demo-app-*.zip demo-dist /s /i
+xcopy demo\plugin1\target\pf4j-demo-plugin1-*.zip demo-dist\plugins /s
+xcopy demo\plugin2\target\pf4j-demo-plugin2-*.zip demo-dist\plugins /s
+
+cd demo-dist
+
+REM unzip app
+unzip pf4j-demo-app-*.zip
+rm pf4j-demo-app-*.zip
+
+REM run demo
+java -jar pf4j-demo-app-*-SNAPSHOT.jar
+cd ..