japp-maven-plugin

(current released version: 3.0)

japp-maven-plugin is a plugin to assemble desktop Java applications for different platforms, namely OS X, Windows and Linux. Produced Linux version is a generic runnable jar that works on any other platform just as well.

japp-maven-plugin is a direct descendant of maven-japplication-plugin. The main motivation for its continuing development is to support the assembly of CayenneModeler application developed by the Apache Cayenne project. However there's no Cayenne dependency what so ever. The plugin is generic and anyone is welcome to use it for Java app packaging.

Supported Environments

The plugin can package Java apps for the following platforms:

Target Platform	Build Platform	Build Java Version
OS X - Oracle Java (1.7 and newer)	Any	1.7+
OS X - Legacy Apple Java (1.5, 1.6)	Any	1.5+
Windows	Windows	1.5+
Generic / Cross-Platform	Any	1.5+

Getting The Plugin

You may clone the git repo and do "mvn clean install"

You may get a released version from ObjectStyle Maven repository. (I may push it to Central if there's popular demand). For this you will need to declare the repo in your POM:

  <repository>
          <id>objectstyle</id>
          <name>ObjectStyle Repository</name>
          <url>http://maven.objectstyle.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases</url>
          <layout>default</layout>
  </repository>

If you are using a repository manager like Nexus, you may add the repository above to the list of proxied repos. This is probably the cleanest option.

Examples

Packaging for OS X:

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.objectstyle.japp</groupId>
	<artifactId>japp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>3.0</version>
	<configuration>
		<name>MyApp</name>
		<mainClass>org.foo.Main</mainClass>
		<icon>src/japplication/resources/My.icns</icon>
		<os>mac</os>
		<jvmOptions>-Xmx512m -Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true</jvmOptions>
	</configuration>
	<executions>
		<execution>
			<phase>generate-resources</phase>
			<goals>
				<goal>japp</goal>
			</goals>
		</execution>
	</executions>
</plugin>

Packaging for OS X legacy Apple JVM:

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.objectstyle.japp</groupId>
	<artifactId>japp-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>3.0</version>
	<configuration>
		<name>MyApp</name>
		<mainClass>org.foo.Main</mainClass>
		<icon>src/japplication/resources/My.icns</icon>
		<os>mac</os>
		<flavor>osx_legacy</flavor>
		<jvm>1.5+</jvm>
		<jvmOptions>-Xmx512m -Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true</jvmOptions>
	</configuration>
	<executions>
		<execution>
			<phase>generate-resources</phase>
			<goals>
				<goal>japp</goal>
			</goals>
		</execution>
	</executions>
</plugin>

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