Source and Javadoc jar generation

Question

Hi,

I think my question is easy. However it is surprising I couldn't find any easy solution.

I'm developing an open source Java library project on Netbeans and like many others I want to release it as binary.jar, source.jar and javadoc.jar.

Is there a way to generate them automatically on Netbeans? I know maven can do it. But the learning curve seems too long.

There is a similar question but the only answer didn't work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/855498/automatically-generating-source-and-doc-jars-in-netbeans

Answer 1

Try ant http://ant.apache.org/ . It's easier to learn than maven and can do your code compilation.

Answer 2

Maven plugins could be you answer

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.7</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>jar</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>package</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.4</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>jar</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>package</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Answer 3

With ant you can easily generate your javadoc, compile, create jars and zip-file. It's better than do it in netbeans, because if someone want to contribute he could do it with his preferred IDE.

Answer 4

If you are developing a library that others might help develop then you should think about using Maven.

This way you project will be independent of your IDE and also dependencies, tests and deployment will be taken care of centrally, instead of ever contributor rolling their own.m

Answer 5

This is all the maven config you need to attach source and javadoc automatically to the build:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.7</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>attach-javadoc</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>jar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.2</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>attach-source</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>jar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

That's not too awful, is it?