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Re: Preferred way to distribute application

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Thanks for your time and feedback Joerg.

On 08/04/2019 13:46, Joerg Meier wrote:
>>   1.  Package everything into a single JAR with embedded jar
>>       dependencies.
> 
> This is by far the best default way if you want to distribute a runnable
> application.

This is what I was using up to now. Glad to hear I was on the right track.


>> At the moment I don't have a lot of dependencies, but you never know
>> what the future of the project might dictate.
> 
> You pretty much SHOULD be using dependencies. One of Javas biggest
> strengths is the huge, high quality ecosystem that allows you to not
> reinvent wheels and instead focus on your unique sell points inspead of

Coming from Object Pascal (Delphi/FPC) that is a rather large change for
me. The ecosystem in Object Pascal is really a drop in the ocean
compared to Java, and often I rolled-my-own solution in Object Pascal
projects. Indeed in Java it seems somebody has already written an
excellent library to reuse. I've quick discovered this when I wanted to
handle command line parameters, processing JSON files or producing PDF
output. Brilliant and well supported libraries already existed for all
of those. It saved me a huge amount of time.


Regards,
  Graeme

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Preferred way to distribute application Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@example.net> - 2019-04-08 12:28 +0100
  Re: Preferred way to distribute application Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2019-04-08 14:46 +0200
    Re: Preferred way to distribute application Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@example.net> - 2019-04-10 10:29 +0100
  Re: Preferred way to distribute application Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de> - 2019-04-10 16:22 +0200

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