buoncubi / ros_java_template_pkg

A template for making ROSJava packages and messages

ROS-Java template package

This repository contains a simple template for ROS packages that use the Java programming language.

It depends on ros-java, installable o via apt-get (tested with Ubuntu 16.04 and ROS kinetic

It use the arMOR library as a placeolder to show how to include jars; checkout the gradle file.

Remember to put all the java messages in a separate package.

Usefull commands

• ./gradlew install (and installApp automatically called from catking)
• ./gradlew deployApp (per usre il roslaunch)
• ./gradlew publish (used if you make rosjava libraries)

Node and Service Examples

Checkout this code for examples:

• Publisher
• Subscriber
• Service

For ROSrun or ROSlauch

call deployApp first, than use: rosrun <ros_package_name> execute <java.path.to.node.or.Service> or for roslauch <node pkg="ros_package_name" type="execute" name="ros_package_name" args="java.path.to.node.or.Service"/>

Messages

If you want to use custom message, which depends from many packages in your warkspace,is always god to have a separate packages for that. Please check the ros_java_msgs for an example.

Author

Luca Buoncompagni EMAROlab, DIBRIS department, University of Genoa, Italy.

Previous commit for this package can be found here.