Is there a package manager for Java like easy_install for Python?

Question

Is there a package manager for Java like easy_install for Python?
I am looking for a solution that can be used from the command line, and not from the IDE.

Answer 1

Maven provides remote storage dependency management (e.g. central repo ) that are viewable, searchable .

Maven Ant Tasks use Maven repositories to provide dependency management and more for Ant builds.

Ant Ivy is another alternative to Maven Ant tasks.

MOP is another command line tool that uses the Maven repository and dependencies.

Answer 2

Edit 2017-04-27: I was disappointed by the lack of forward momentum for jpm4j and the lack of community oriented development. So I came up with a new tool called jrun . I invite everyone to check this out. It has a narrower scope than tools like Python pip , but allows you to execute Java code from remote Maven repositories in a simple way.

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Check out JPM4J . This is a project by Peter Kriens (from the fame of BND). He first proposed it last year , and at the time of writing this article he had been in a few months and looks pretty impressive.

It was inspired by Node npm, and, like this tool, the installation is cinch:

OS X:

 local $ curl http://www.jpm4j.org/install/local | sh global $ curl http://www.jpm4j.org/install/global | sudo sh 

Linux:

 curl http://www.jpm4j.org/install/script | sh 

And Windows, of course, has a click.

Then you install the material in a manner similar to other command line package manager tools. For example:.

 jpm install org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all 

The installation command manages the coordinates of Maven. Basically, a JAR just needs a JPM-Command entry in its manifest, and jpm knows how to expose its main class as a command-line executable.

Personally, I would be very pleased to see that the Java community overshadows such an effort. A really solid Java package manager is long overdue!

Answer 3

Apache's Ivy is the closest I know about.