An extendible and configurable PDF manipulation layer. It is a ready to use java library to perform PDF document manipulation without having to deal with the low level API.
Buildr is a build system for Java applications in Ruby Maven compatible * A simple way to specify projects, and build large projects out of smaller sub-projects. * Pre-canned tasks that require the least amount of configuration, keeping the build script DRY and simple. * Compiling, copying and filtering resources, JUnit/TestNG test cases, APT source code generation, Javadoc etc * A dependency mechanism that only builds what has changed since the last release. * A drop-in replacement for Maven 2.0, Buildr uses the same file layout, artifact specifications, local and remote repositories. * All your Ant tasks belong to us! Anything you can do with Ant, you can do with Buildr. * No overhead for building “plugins” or configuration. Just write new tasks or functions. * Buildr is Ruby all the way down. No one-off task is too demanding when you write code using variables, functions and objects. * Simple to upgrade to new versions. * fast
Lets you build an executable jar with Maven2, containing all dependencies.
You can do that with the assembly plugin too, but that will just unpack all dependencies together with your classes in one directory and then repack that directory into a new jar. Doing it that way means files will overwrite each other if they have the same names in the same path, which is quite common with resources such as log4.properties and even other more important files.
With onejar-maven-plugin, you'll instead get a nice clean super jar with the dependency jars inside.
The Animal Sniffer Plugin is used to build signatures of APIs and to check your classes against previously generated signatures. This plugin is called animal sniffer because the principal signatures that are used are those of the Java Runtime, and since Sun traditionally names the different versions of its Java Runtimes after different animals, the plugin that detects what Java Runtime your code requires was called "Animal Sniffer".