I'm writing an application that uses the JavaFX library and the JBibTex library.
I'm also using Maven in my project to be able to package my application in a .jar. Using the javafx-maven-plugin, the command one has to use to package the application is mvn javafx:jlink
.
The issue now is that javafx:jlink only supports explicit modules. JBibTex isn't an explicit module so it yields the following error:
Error: automatic module cannot be used with jlink: jbibtex
I've then come accross the ModiTect maven plugin during my searches which sounded promising. So I've set my pom.xml up like so:
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>15</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>15</maven.compiler.target>
<mainClass>project.view.App</mainClass>
<moduleName>project.brm</moduleName>
<javafx.version>17.0.1</javafx.version>
<javafx.maven.plugin.version>0.0.8</javafx.maven.plugin.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- javafx dependancies-->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-controls</artifactId>
<version>${javafx.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-fxml</artifactId>
<version>${javafx.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.13.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jbibtex/jbibtex -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jbibtex</groupId>
<artifactId>jbibtex</artifactId>
<version>1.0.17</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>configs</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.moditect</groupId>
<artifactId>moditect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>15</source>
<target>15</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${javafx.maven.plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<mainClass>${mainClass}</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.moditect</groupId>
<artifactId>moditect-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.RC2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-module-infos</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-module-info</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<jvmVersion>15</jvmVersion>
<module>
<moduleInfo>
<name>org.jbibtex</name>
<exports>
*;
</exports>
</moduleInfo>
</module>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
If I then run the mvn clean install
command, i get the error:
Error: myProject-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar is a modular JAR file that cannot be specified with the --generate-module-info option
which is caused by the add-module-infos
goal.
What is wrong with my setup? Why cannot ModiTect add the module-info of JBibTex to my .jar (if that's actually what it's doing)?