Starting A Java Project

I have been working on some Java coding kata’s lately.

One of the pain points was the getting the environment set up.

This is one thing that other environments get right:

C# – visual studio has templates for everything.

Elixir – “mix new projectname” does the trick

I have had a look at the Java equivalents:

If you have gradle installed:

gradle init –type java-library

or if you prefer groovy and spock:

gradle init –type groovy-application

If you have maven installed:

mvn archetype:generate –DgroupId=com.mycompany.app –DartifactId=my–app –DarchetypeArtifactId=maven–archetype–quickstart –DinteractiveMode=false

Personally I like the brevity of gradle, both of these should be run inside the directory that you have created.