Question

The ways I know about so far are

• Create an ant build.xml file, make compile and run tasks, and include appropriate jars in a classpath=

• Make at sbt project and include dependencies with version numbers in build.sbt

• Make a maven project and include dependencies in the xml file

• Run from the command line setting -classpath explicitly

None of these are bad, but it feels like extra work after being babied with

import json

json.loads('[1, 2]')

and having that work right off the bat, provided I have json installed. In particular tracking down appropriate versions on Mavenhub gets a little tiresome.

Though maybe I’m just being too picky 😉

Answer 1

What you want is xsbtscript: https://github.com/paulp/xsbtscript

It allows you to create a single script file which includes both the sbt config your code requires along with the Scala code itself.