But seriously, jpm simply follows the basic idea of npm where you maintain a list of dependencies for a project and have those dependencies stored locally in the same folder as the rest of the project's files. Under the hood resolving of dependencies is still done by Maven, no wheel is reinvented.

Two months ago, when I asked for feedback on Reddit (see www.reddit.com/r/java/comme...) several comments were along the line of "npm sucks! therefore so does your tool!". Now I don't know about npm sucking, but I know jpm doesn't suck 😜

Just wanted to introduce jpm here on Bluesky
github.com/codejive/java-jpm
It's a dependency manager for #java and other #jvm based languages somewhat inspired by npm.

Or if you want to use the original Gist:

jbang --deps com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.19.0 --java 25 gist.github.com/nipafx/bb980...

Now why would you do that ? For once - makes it a breeze to run Quarkus MCP Servers even if you don't have Java installed!

Updated github.com/quarkiverse/... to mention the JBang Everywhere feature :)

Politicians (and unfortunately a large part of the population) won't do anything unless it starts to affect them personally. Ukraine is far away and "not my problem" for them.

An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

Este cartel ha aparecido en una parada de bus de Londres. "De 0 a 1939 en 3 segundos. Tesla. El Esvasticar." Fantasía.

Unnamed patterns, FFM, multi-file programs, Markdown in JavaDoc, generational ZGC, primitive patterns, module imports, String templates (or not), flexible constructor bodies, stream gatherers, and the class-file API - all in one Modern #Java deep dive:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4qs...

I've been helping Max for years now with JBang, so I agree that it is a lovely tool! But at the same time I'm also the author of Jpm, because I noticed that sometimes I wanted something simpler, more composable and with a bit more freedom to do things my way instead of the JBang way. :-)

JBang is an all-in-one solution for dealing with lots of issues that plague the Java ecosystem and one of its goals is to make working with Java as easy as possible. Jpm just does the depency bit, trying to be a more composable solution in the *nix way. Disclaimer, I'm a dev on both projects.

If you're using #Java​'s source-file launcher, you may eventually want to drop some dependencies into your little project. But how to get them without a build tool?

One answer is JPM - give it a shot, it's cool: github.com/codejive/jav...