Month: June 2011

flamingo-maven-plugin-1.1 released!

flamingo-maven-plugin transcode SVG files into Java2D classes that can implement ResizableIcon from the Flamingo / Insubstantial projects

The project is hosted in maven central. here you’ll find a quick copy/paste for the dependency.

Transcode SVG files

Use the following goal: transcode

Configuration inside the POM

Here is a quick example:

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.codeartisans</groupId>
 <artifactId>flamingo-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>1.1</version>
 <executions>
  <execution>
   <id>icons</id>
   <phase>generate-sources</phase>
   <goals><goal>transcode</goal></goals>
   <configuration>
    <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/svg</sourceDirectory>
    <outputPackage>com.example.icons</outputPackage>
    <implementsResizableIcon>true</implementsResizableIcon><!-- Defaults to false -->
    <stopOnFailure>false</stopOnFailure> <!-- Defaults to true -->
   </configuration>
  </execution>
 </executions>
</plugin>

thirdparties-maven-plugin-1.0 released!

Use thirdparties-maven-plugin to easily copy/download external files and attach them as classified artifacts.

The project is hosted in maven central so no special setup is needed to use it.

Here is the snippet for the 1.0 version :

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.codeartisans</groupId>
 <artifactId>thirdparties-maven-plugin</artifactId> 
 <version>1.0</version>
</plugin>

Usage

This plugin has only one goal : attached.

Configuration using a property file

<configuration>
 <thirdPartiesFile>${project.basedir}/path/to/yours.properties</thirdPartiesFile>
</configuration>

Property file syntax is as follow:

[classifier].[type].src=[url]
[classifier].[type].md5=[md5]

Here is a quick example:

foo.tar.gz.src=http://example.com/Foo-1.2.3-r5635.tar.gz
foo.tar.gz.md5=94c331b029ab45d7db5d39cccacdf0e1

The md5 statement is optional and used only if present. If absent a file that already exists is not downloaded.

Configuration inside the POM

Here is a quick example:

<configuration>
 <thirdParties>
 <thirdParty>
 <classifier>foo</classifier>
 <type>tar.gz</type>
 <src>http://example.com/Foo-1.2.3-r5635.tar.gz</src>
 <md5>94c331b029ab45d7db5d39cccacdf0e1</md5>
 </thirdParty>
 </thirdParties>
</configuration>

artifactinfo-maven-plugin-1.0 released!

artifactinfo-maven-plugin generate java code with constants containing maven project metadata for use in your code.

The project is hosted in maven central so no special setup is needed to use it.

Here is the snippet for the 1.0 version :

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.codeartisans</groupId>
 <artifactId>artifactinfo-maven-plugin</artifactId> 
 <version>1.0</version>
</plugin>

It is very simple to use:

  • it has only one goal : artifactinfo
  • without configuration it use sensible defaults reusing groupId and artifactId for package and class name
  • you can override default package name with the packageName configuration parameter
  • you can override default class name with the className configuration parameter