beryx/badass-jar-plugin

Interested in collaborating with ModiTect?

gunnarmorling opened this issue · 4 comments

gunnarmorling commented

Hey,

I just learned from @aalmiray about this plug-in and your blog post at https://beryx.org/blog/2018-11-21-/modular-jars-targeted-at-pre-java-9/. Thanks a lot for the reference to ModiTect! Having a Gradle plug-in for ModiTect has been on the wishlist for a while, and @aalmiray was just recently expressing interest towards contributing to such effort. Seeing your plug-in here, we were wondering whether you'd perhaps be interested in creating a joint effort under the ModiTect umbrella?

Cheers,

Gunnar

siordache commented

Hi Gunnar,

Yes, I'm interested in collaborating with ModiTect and this plugin definitely belongs under its umbrella.

Cheers,
Serban

siordache commented

Happy new year, @gunnarmorling !

My original intention was to gradually transform this project into a Gradle plugin for ModiTect. However, I concluded that it's actually easier to start from scratch. Besides, I think it's convenient to have a simple plugin for the use case of creating modular jars that target a Java release before 9. That's why I decided to keep this project as a member of the badass plugins family and to implement a new one as counterpart of the Maven ModiTect plugin.

The new project is currently located here. While still in alpha stage, it's already able to create valid custom runtime images for the hibernate-validator and undertow test projects. The Gradle plugin uses the moditect artifact` as a dependency. I chose to put the plugin in a separate repository instead of providing it as a PR for the ModiTect project. This way, the Maven and the Gradle plugin can move at their own pace.

I will gladly transfer the Gradle plugin repository to the ModiTect organization if you find it useful. (For this, you need to invite me to become a member of the ModiTect organization.)

Cheers,
Serban

gunnarmorling commented

Hey @siordache, happy 2019 to you, too! Really excited to hear that you'd like team up with ModiTect for the Gradle plug-in! I've just sent you an invite for the "moditect" organization and created a repo for the plug-in: https://github.com/moditect/moditect-gradle-plugin. So you should be able to send a PR with your current implementation against that repo. I'll then take a look. Thanks a lot!

siordache commented

Thanks, @gunnarmorling ! I will send the PR in the next few days.