This is a template I use to start Java projects.
You'll find:
- the Java project directory layout popularized by Maven (and now used by other tools)
- a gradle file which can be used to build/test/run/clean/distro the project (more on that later)
- a basic HelloWorld program with logging configured (slf4j and logback)
- a basic TestNG test framework in place to test the HelloWorld program
The gradle files are configured to support the tasks you would expect. As a general rule, you would do
gradle clean build
and everything would just work.
When you are ready to deploy your work, you would do
gradle distZip
and a correctly named and versioned zip file will be built in ./build/distributions.
To run the application:
gradle run
To just compile:
gradle compileJava
To just test:
gradle test