JellyCastle builds enable Maven build configuration via Java annotations.

Why should someone do something like this? Maven has been and is still a well known standard for Java build lifecylces. The painful experience with this approach is developers having to deal with huge amount of XML configuration files that Maven produces.

Jelly castle as a framework uses the new Maven 3.3.1 core extension mechanism in order to enable Maven configuration as Java annotations. We think the build configuration and build information on dependencies, plugins and properties should be part of the code base. Writing and using Java annotations has become to a natural daily work business for all Java developers out there. So it is natural to also use this well known and accepted meta data information to specify how to build and run the application.

Visit our official website at 'http://www.jellycastle.org (not available yet!)' for more information and a detailed documentation.

Each release comes with a complete reference documentation. At the beginning of the reference you will find a section about the changes and notes for this release. For detailed description of changed packages and classes do also consult the provided javadoc.

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