It's just one of those things, operations people love to have a single artefact with command line flag parsing etc.
java -jar application.jar -c <config> -l <logging> -p <port> -n <name> When something can be downloaded, and directly executed, it is so nice to work with, no crappy bash scripts to get in the way. Compare and contrast with Tomcat and it's startup scripts, how many hours of my life have been wasted that way, I do not know. On 24 Jan 2014, at 13:03, Oleg Zhurakousky <[email protected]> wrote: > Bryan > > While I understand the general reason why we still have fat jars in this > world, it usually points to a problem (e.g., the target runtime environment > is less then adequate to manage the application's classpath amongst other > things). If its your own runtime (e.g., standalone akka app) then I would err > on the side of creating a small launcher scrip or look at Akka Microkernel. I > would also look at the features of build tools you are using (Sbt, Gradle, > Maven etc...). Some of them have plugins that would do those things for you. > For example; the 'Application' plug-in in Gradle would package all that is > required into a zip while also generating startup scripts with classpath etc. > I am sure Sbt has something similar. > Fat jar just sounds kind of patchy and depending on what you are putting in > it may also present a legal question that I am sure you don't want to deal > with > > Oleg > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:11 AM, bryan hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > For those who are using Maven as a build tool, a similar problem exists, > fortunately it can be circumvented by merging the resource.conf files > together. > > The Maven shade plugin configuration for doing so is as follows: > > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId> > <version>1.5</version> > <executions> > <execution> > <phase>package</phase> > <goals> > <goal>shade</goal> > </goals> > <configuration> > > <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached> > > <shadedClassifierName>allinone</shadedClassifierName> > <artifactSet> > <includes> > <include>*:*</include> > </includes> > </artifactSet> > <transformers> > <transformer > > implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer"> > <resource>reference.conf</resource> > </transformer> > <transformer > > implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer"> > <manifestEntries> > > <Main-Class>com.binarytemple.FooMain</Main-Class> > </manifestEntries> > </transformer> > </transformers> > </configuration> > </execution> > </executions> > </plugin> > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: http://akka.io/faq/ > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: http://akka.io/faq/ > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/akka-user/p6C0Stlgbe0/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: http://akka.io/faq/ >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
