It's entirely too difficult to create a standalone application with Java. I mean, it's moderately painful to create an app with standard POSIX-compliant command-line options, help available from the command-line, man pages, and support for i18n. This stuff ought to be easy. Somebody else should take care of it so you can just concentrate on writing a great app. Am I right?

Jaks is still pre-alpha and is actively being developed. When completed, it will provide a simplified path for creating professional standalone Java applications. The plan is to make it easy to handle command-line options, with assistance in developing help and documentation (man pages, Maven site docs). I'd also like to simplify creating installation packages for Debian/Ubuntu at first, and perhaps branch out later into other OSs.

Examples

• Quick-Start

Developer Documentation

• Maven Site Docs
• JavaDocs

Maven Repositories For Jaks

The latest snapshots of the Jaks artifacts are available via our private repository. You can add this boilerplate to your pom.xml to use Jaks in a single project, or you can add it to your settings.xml to make it available globally. <repositories> <repository> <name>Jaks [Snapshots]</name> <id>jaks-snapshots</id> <url>http://jaks.googlecode.com/svn/repo/snapshots</url> </repository> </repositories>

There is no "releases" repository at this time.

Once Jaks has has adequate time to mature, we plan to deploy everything to Maven Central.

Building

To build the project manually, check-out the code (see instructions on the Source tab), navigate to /trunk, and type: $ mvn clean install This project requires Java 7 JDK and Maven 3.

Building Jaks installs artifacts into your local Maven repository, ready for use in your own projects.

To build the most current version of site-docs on your local system: $ mvn clean install site-deploy