jtoolprovider-plugin

Maven Plugin Adapter for the ToolProvider API

License	Apache License, Version 2.0
Categories	IDE Development Tools
GroupId	io.github.wiverson
ArtifactId	jtoolprovider-plugin
Last Version	1.0.34
Release Date	Mar 12, 2021
Type	maven-plugin
Description	jtoolprovider-plugin Maven Plugin Adapter for the ToolProvider API
Project URL	https://github.com/wiverson/jtoolprovider-plugin
Project Organization	Will Iverson
Source Code Management	https://github.com/wiverson/jtoolprovider-plugin/

Download jtoolprovider-plugin

Filename	Size
jtoolprovider-plugin-1.0.34.pom
jtoolprovider-plugin-1.0.34.jar	11 KB
jtoolprovider-plugin-1.0.34-sources.jar	5 KB
jtoolprovider-plugin-1.0.34-javadoc.jar	116 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<plugin>
    <groupId>io.github.wiverson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jtoolprovider-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.34</version>
</plugin>

Dependencies

compile (5)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven : maven-plugin-api	jar	3.6.3
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools : maven-plugin-annotations	jar	3.6.0
org.slf4j : slf4j-api	jar	1.7.30
org.sonatype.plexus : plexus-build-api	jar	0.0.7
org.moditect : moditect-maven-plugin	jar	1.0.0.RC1

test (3)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
junit : junit	jar	4.13.1
org.assertj : assertj-core	jar	3.18.1
org.slf4j : slf4j-simple	jar	1.7.30

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

jtoolprovider-plugin

This Maven Plugin does two things. First, it automatically transforms your Maven dependency graph into Java modules. Second, it bridges Maven and built-in Java tools like jdeps, jlink, and jpackage.

Why would you care about any of that? The main reason: this plugin makes it much, much easier to generate native Java desktop applications with nice, small installers. Here's a complete working example of generating a JavaFX desktop app, including GitHub Actions to automatically generate the macOS, Windows, and Linux versions.

The two goals for this plugin are collect-modules (which processes the Maven dependency tree to transform Maven dependencies into modules) and java-tool (to run any supported JDK tool directly from in Maven).

By combining this plugin with Maven build profiles, it's possible to build a single Maven pom.xml that can generate platform-specific installers. Very useful for things like working with JavaFX.

Next Steps

• Read the collect-modules goal documentation
• Read the java-tool goal documentation
• Check out the complete working example this plugin in action building a JavaFX desktop application, with GitHub Actions to generate the macOS, Windows, and Linux versions

Background Information

• The java-tool goal integrates with Maven via the Java ToolProvider API

Versions

Version
1.0.34 Mar 12, 2021
1.0.33 Mar 11, 2021
1.0.32 Mar 10, 2021
1.0.31 Mar 9, 2021
1.0.30 Mar 9, 2021
1.0.29 Mar 8, 2021
1.0.25 Jan 23, 2021
1.0.23 Oct 31, 2020
1.0.22 Oct 31, 2020
1.0.21 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.20 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.17 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.16 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.15 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.14 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.13 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.12 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.11 Oct 30, 2020
1.0.10 Oct 30, 2020