To create a new Java project, use projen new java
:
$ projen new java --group-id org.acme --artifact-id hello-maven
This will synthesize a standard Maven project directory structure with a
pom.xml
file and some sample code:
├── pom.xml
└── src
├── main/java/org/acme
│ └── Main.java
└── test/java/org/acme
└── MyTest.java
At this point, you should be able to now simply run projen build
to build your
project:
$ projen build
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
Since this is a standard Maven project, so you can also use
mvn package
,mvn test
, etc. IDEs should also feel at home with this project.
The projen new
command will also generate a .projenrc.js
file which includes
the definition of your project with any options you specified in the command
line:
const { java } = require('projen');
const project = new java.JavaProject({
artifactId: 'hello-maven',
groupId: 'org.acme',
name: 'hello-maven',
version: '0.1.0',
});
project.synth();
At this point, projenrc is in JavaScript, but in the future we plan to allow specifying your project definitions in Java.
To modify your project definitions, edit .projenrc.js
and run projen
again
to re-synthesize your project. The following sections describe the various
features of your project.
The following sections describe the various features of Java projects.
You can set the project version through the version
options:
const project = new java.MavenProject({
version: '1.2.3'
};
You can specify additional metadata for your project by passing options to the
constructor of MavenProject
. For example, let's add a description and a URL
for your project:
const project = new java.JavaProject({
// ...
description: 'My first java projen project',
url: 'https://github.com/projen/projen'
});
See the API reference for PomOptions for a detailed list of options.
Java projects have three types of supported dependencies:
- Runtime dependencies (or just "dependencies").
- Test dependencies
- Maven plugins (modeled as build dependencies).
You can define dependencies when defining the project itself:
const project = new JavaProject({
deps: [
'software.amazon.awscdk/core@^1.2.3',
'software.amazon.awscdk/aws-s3@^1',
]
});
Or using the APIs:
project.addTestDependency('org.assertj/assertj-core@^3');
Notice the syntax for dependencies:
<groupId>/<artifactId>[@version]
Where groupID
and artifactId
are the Maven coordinates and version
is the
semantic version requirement for the dependency. The
semver syntax will be converted to POM syntax. For example, ^3.1.0
will be
converted to [3.1.0,4.0.0)
.
It is possible to write your projenrc file in Java. In the future this will be the default for Java projects, but at the moment this needs to be enabled when the project is created:
$ projen new java --projenrc-java
Or set through:
new java.JavaProject({
// ...
projenrcJava: true
});
Then, create a file src/test/java/projenrc.java
that looks like this:
import org.projen.java.JavaProject;
import org.projen.java.JavaProjectOptions;
public class projenrc {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JavaProject project = new JavaProject(JavaProjectOptions.builder()
.name("my-app")
.groupId("org.acme")
.artifactId("my-app")
.version("1.0.0")
.build());
project.synth();
}
}
In order to synthesize, run: pj synth
, which will compile your test code and
execute this program.
By default, projenrc.java
is placed under the test
scope (and
com.github.eladb/projen
test dependency is added). This ensures that
application code does not take a dependency on projen code. You can change this
behavior by setting the testScope
option to false
.
You can add Maven build plugins to your project using project.addPlugin()
:
project.addPlugin('org.apache.maven.plugins/[email protected]', {
configuration: {
source: '1.8',
target: '1.8',
},
});
The JUnit
component adds support for writing Java tests with
JUnit. The component will add the required test
dependencies to your POM file.
Test sources are placed under src/test
and can be executed via mvn test
or
projen test
(same).
To disable JUnit tests, set junit: false
when you define the MavenProject
.
Java projects include definitionds for producing an output that is ready-to-publish to Maven using tools like jsii-release. In future versions of projen we will also support auto-publishing through CI/CD.
The packaging component adds a package
task which uses mvn deploy
to create
a local maven directory with artifacts that can be uploaded to a Maven
repository such as Maven Central, CodeArtifact or GitHub Packages.
By default, packages includes javadocs and sources. Those can be disabled
through packagingOptions
.
TBD.
Publishing to Maven is still not supported output of the box. Since the package output of
JavaProject
is compatible with jsii-release, and we already release to Maven from jsii projects, it should be possible to reuse quite a lot.