appbundle-maven-plugin

Maven plugin that creates an Application Bundle for OS X containing all your project dependencies and the necessary metadata.

<plugin>
  <groupId>sh.tak.appbundler</groupId>
  <artifactId>appbundle-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.4</version>
  <configuration>
    <mainClass>your.app.MainClass</mainClass>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>bundle</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Package with following command,

mvn package appbundle:bundle

Use Custom Info.plist and Icon

Put your custom Info.plist and Icon.icns under your maven resource paths (src/main/resources on default configuration).

Configure pom.xml like below,

<configuration>
   <mainClass>your.app.MainClass</mainClass>
   <dictionaryFile>YourCustomInfo.plist</dictionaryFile>
   <iconFile>CustomIncon.icns</iconFile>
</configuration>

Embedd Java Runtime Environment

Locate the JRE or JDK on your Mac (/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ on default configuration).

Configure pom.xml like below,

<configuration>
   <mainClass>your.app.MainClass</mainClass>
   <jrePath>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_75.jdk</jrePath>
</configuration>

How to create DMG

You can create DMG(Apple disk image) file with the following command,

hdiutil create -srcfolder path/to/archive path/to/YourApplication.dmg

About this plugin

As you may know, Apple has dropped Java development from OS X excluding security patches.

mojo's osxappbundle-maven-plugin depends on Apple's Java launcher, so it does not support Java version 7 and future.

Oracle's Java Application Bundler supports other Java runtime (including Java 7, 8 and more), but it does not support maven.

I merged both and fix to work as a maven plugin that supports latest Mac OS X.

License

native/main.m is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.