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Tools

Minho provides several tools in order for you to easily create your runtime.

Basically, Minho tools can use minho-build.json file describing the runtime.

Then, you can create different forms (distributions) for your runtime:

  • package creates a directory containing all required resources for the runtime (exploded form). Then, you go in this directory and just launch the runtime with java -jar minho-boot-xx.jar
  • jar creates an uber jar packaging runtime resources in one archive. Then, you launch the runtime with java -jar myruntime.jar
  • archive creates a zip archive containing runtime resources and startup script. After extracting this archive, you can launch the runtime with ./bin/minho.sh

You have different options to create the runtime.

minho-build.json file​

All Minho tools are using a runtime descriptor: minho-build.json.

This file describe:

  • name of the runtime
  • properties used to specify extra information to build the runtime
  • dependencies is the modules (libraries) to be included in the runtime (using file, http, mvn URL)

Here's an example of minho-build.json file:

{
    "name": "my-runtime",
    "properties": {
        "include.transitive": "true"
    },
    "dependencies": [
        "minho:minho-boot",
        "mvn:commons-lang/commons-lang/2.6"
    ]
}

NB: minho-build.json can be written by hand or can be generated by the minho-maven-plugin for instance.

CLI​

minho-build is a command line to create the runtime based on minho-build.json descriptor.

Installation​

minho-build CLI

Use​

Apache Maven plugin​

Gradle​

REST​

Creator (online)​