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JarSplice: building fat jars with native resources bundled

JarSplice is an application that builds a fat jar, with the main difference being that JarSplice will build invocation scripts and include native resources. The main weaknesses of JarSplice seems to be its lack of build tool integration, its (apparently) unmaintained status, and its lack of source code availability (even though it’s described as being under the BSD license). A “fat jar” (or a “shaded jar”) is a jar file that has been bundled...

Jul 14, 2017 — 2 minute(s) read

#fat-jar #gradle #maven #shade

Interesting Links – 3 Oct 2016

User MarkyC showed Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers, in response to a query about what data types were useful for storing phone numbers. Channel consensus was to do what was necessary, but usually: String. From Reddit, OpenJDK6 End of Life details how the open source OpenJDK6 is reaching its end of life, years after the official Java 6 and Java 7 have reached theirs. This was surprising; I didn’t realise OpenJDK6 was still...

Oct 3, 2016 — 2 minute(s) read

#data-types #end-of-life #gradle #java-6 #maven #openjdk #phone-numbers #windows #xterm

What you want to have to develop Java

Recently a user asked what they would need to know to develop a “small web application” using Java, including a database. This is not a good question, really, but IRC user surial gave a lot of relevant information that’s worth preserving and adding to. This is not what surial said – if you’re interested in the actual content, see the channel logs – but this is a paraphrase that attempts to build on surial’s...

Aug 24, 2016 — 6 minute(s) read

#gradle #hibernate #java #jdbi #jdk #jooq #jpa #libraries #maven #quickstart

Interesting Links, 1 Mar 2016

Happy March 1, it’s April Fool’s Day! Oh, wait… From ##java itself: Anthaas_> 99.7% of people who say C++ is faster are not capable of using the highly-skilled techniques required to make that true. Now, about how he collected the data to validate that statement… Gradle.org posted “Gradle vs Maven Feature Comparison“, with a description of “At long last, a comprehensive feature comparison of Maven vs Gradle that shows...

Mar 1, 2016 — 2 minute(s) read

#c #gradle #hashcodes #hashmap #maven #speed #testing