Use SBT To Build Pure Java Project

Question

Historically I have used Ant+Ivy or Maven for building my Java projects. I'm now looking at non-xml based solutions.

Gradle can compile, jar and publish my project with few issues.

Can I do the same with SBT? If so, can you provide a simple example of using sbt to build a java only project.

Answer 1

For me, it also helped a bit to remove the scala version information from the generated artifact paths, as described in this answer. You'll also want to remove the Scala library as a dependency from any pom or ivy file you publish.

Here's what you'll need:

crossPaths := false autoScalaLibrary := false 

Answer 2

Yes this is entirely possible. Nothing to setup really, a small build.sbt file should do the trick, something like:

organization := "your.group.id"  name := "Your project"  version := "1.0-SNAPSHOT"  libraryDependencies ++= Seq( <any normal jar deps> ) 

And run sbt package from the command line.