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user2054833

Reputation: 2165

Java tool for easy dependency management in eclipse

Is there any tool for java that I can use to automatically download the jars for the frameworks I want to use and manage there dependencies in Eclipse. I have always admired Visual Studio and how easy it is to do stuff like that and I'm wonder if there is any capability like that for Eclipse.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 228

Answers (5)

Jaydeep Rajput
Jaydeep Rajput

Reputation: 3673

if you use maven as build tool

You could define the dependancies in pom.xml as below which will automatically download jars(junit-4.0.jar in this case) from specified repository on maven build.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.0</version>
      <type>jar</type>
      <scope>test</scope>
      <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    ...
  </dependencies>

Upvotes: 0

Mariusz Jamro
Mariusz Jamro

Reputation: 31633

See Apache Buildr. It's compatible with maven repositories and uses Ruby scripting language instead of tenths of XML files.

Other options is Graddle, similar to latter and Groovy-based.

Upvotes: 0

dolbi
dolbi

Reputation: 2250

You can try Ivy http://ant.apache.org/ivy/, its a bit rough start but works great.

Upvotes: 0

Eric Wilson
Eric Wilson

Reputation: 59345

Use Maven, along with the m2 plugin for Eclipse. It is the most common way to automatically download dependencies in the Java world.

Upvotes: 5

Boris the Spider
Boris the Spider

Reputation: 61128

The best tool for dependency management is Maven. This would require you to maven-ify your eclipse project however.

With maven you specify your top-level dependency and Maven will work out what that dependency depends on.

Here is an SO question on converting an eclipse project to maven.

Upvotes: 1

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