MavenStart

MavenStart is a Maven2-plugin for generating simple command line scripts to just start a project. This allows you to run your maven-based projects by settingthe classpath to target/classes and all jars in the local maven repository without starting eclipse. So you don't need to package the project as a jar just to run it. It is the command-line equivalent to Eclipse/Run As....

[edit] Road Map

• Add support for generating Linux shell scripts
• Add support for including start scripts in distributions
  • This requires the plugin to generate a different classpath

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[edit] Usage

Add this to your pom.xml file and change mainclass:

<build>
 <plugins>
  <plugin>
   <groupId>de.xam</groupId>
   <artifactId>maven-start-plugin</artifactId>
   <!-- this number might change -->
   <version>0.0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <configuration>
    <!-- put YOUR main class here, syntax: de.xam.MainClass -->
    <mainclass>  ... your main class goes here ... </mainclass>
   </configuration>
  </plugin>
 </plugins>
</build>

To let Maven find the plugin you also need to include

 <pluginRepositories>
   <pluginRepository>
     <id>semweb4j-repo</id>
     <name>Semweb4j.org maven repo</name>
     <url>http://semweb4j.org/repo/</url>
     <releases>
       <enabled>true</enabled>
       <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
       <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
      </snapshots>
   </pluginRepository>
   <pluginRepository>
     <id>semweb4j-snapshots</id>
     <name>Semweb4j.org maven snapshots</name>
     <url>http://semweb4j.org/snapshots/</url>
     <releases>
       <enabled>false</enabled>
     </releases>
     <snapshots>
       <enabled>true</enabled>
       <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
       <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
     </snapshots>
   </pluginRepository>
 </pluginRepositories>

By running

mvn de.xam:maven-start-plugin:start

the plugin generates a file called run_win.bat in the project root folder.

Running

start.bat or start.sh

should run your application,

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