This Maven plugin is a one-stop-shop for packaging, running, starting and stopping vert.x Java applications. This plugin combines the goals of Maven Shade, Maven Exec into one, allowing the users to have a simplified pom.xml.

The following are the list of features that will be part of the plugin:

• Packaging the vert.x application as fat or uber jar

• Running vert.x application as part of maven build in forked or unforked mode

• Starting vert.x application a daemon mode by tagging with a autogenerated id or configurable id i.e. -id option to vertx start

• Setup Set up your existing or new maven project with vert.x maven plugin and vert.x core dependencies

• Stopping vert.x application running daemon mode, this also allows to pass multiple application id’s to be stopped

• Ability to pass vertx configuration -conf automatically if a file named artifactId.json or artifactId.yaml or or artifactId.yml is present in project sources under src/main/conf. The users can also configure the same via plugin configuration. Refer to vertx:run for more information

• Ability to perform when redeploy is enabled, please check the vertx:run for more information

• Ability to perform SPI combination when serviceProviderCombination is configured vertx:package for more information

• Plugin Documentation

If you feel to add any feature you can open issue in https://github.com/reactiverse/vertx-maven-plugin/issues and we will try to address it as soon as possible

We love contributions, if you wish to contribute a patch or feature, please open a issue in https://github.com/reactiverse/vertx-maven-plugin/issues and send in a PR.