Sunday, March 31, 2013

bootstrap4j, ez way to start open source java web development

So when I first started Java web development I started with open source and I was completely lost.  So many frameworks so many libraries.  It took me what felt like forever to get settled.

Maven archetypes were essentially what helped me understand how to control everything and not commit 500 jars to my source code repo. Sill even with maven, getting a hello world up with all the standard frameworks was very time consuming.

I decided to make a maven archetype.  Include all the things of a standard application.  I was originally going to just publish it to the maven archetype repo but thought this might be even simpler for newbies.

https://github.com/asharif/bootstrap4j

just read the readme file, it's only two steps.  The first time it runs it will take awhile as it's downloading all the jars for the project template but after that you can get up and running with Java development in a few second.....that's right not a few days...lol