Using DesignGridLayout 0.9 in Maven projects

Yesterday, I have released the latest official version of DesignGridLayout, almost 2 years after the previous official release (!), and 4 months after being handed over the project (Jason is still project owner but he is much too busy currently).

As mentioned in my previous post, lots of things have changed between these 2 versions.

Maybe one exciting news is that now, Maven users don't have to struggle to use DesignGridLayout in their projects. Indeed, version 0.9 is now uploaded to a maven repository accessible to anyone (no more need to manually install the jar into your local repository).

However, since I didn't use Maven "central" repository (the conditions for uploading an artifact there are too strict: all your dependencies must be present in central repo too), I wanted to briefly show how to use DesignGridLayout in your maven-based project.

DesignGridLayout artifacts have been uploaded to java.net maven repository. Hence you have to add this repository to your pom.xml (you may also add it to settings.xml if you prefer):

<repositories>
  <repository>
      <id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
      <name>Java.net Repository for Maven</name>
      <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
      <layout>default</layout>
  </repository>
</repositories>

Now you just have to declare the dependency as any other artifact used by your project:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
      <groupId>net.java.dev.designgridlayout</groupId>
      <artifactId>designgridlayout</artifactId>
      <version>0.9</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

And voila! You are now ready to use DesignGridLayout for your GUI project!

In addition to DesignGridLayout jar artifact, the repository also contains javadoc and source artifacts that you can automatically download, eg for your IDE (for eclipse, you can follow the instructions there).

Note that swing-layout.jar, the only dependency of DesignGridLayout, will be automatically downloaded to your local repository.

That's it for today, enjoy!