Question

I want to be able to create a command line utility written in Scala using Maven. Ideally, I want to be able to write a main method and have some Maven goal that will install an executable with a certain name into a bin/ directory so it can just be used as a command.

My only experience with this is with Python’s ‘entry_points’ in setup.py which will create an executable shell script that’s configured to call a particular function.

Does Maven offer something like this?

Answer 1

You can use the appassembler-maven-plugin to automatically create a bin script for you.

Alternatively, write your own script and use the assembly plugin to specify how to assemble your program.