dogukancagatay / spring-parent-creator

Custom parent project POM creator for Spring Boot projects

spring-parent-creator

A custom parent project creator for projects using Spring Boot.

Why do we need this?

When using microservices architecture with multiple Java projects (libraries, microservices), you may need some shared objects(plugin setup, dependency versions, etc.) on your project structure.

Having a shared parent project that resembles spring-boot-starter-parent is a good starting point.

Build

Build an executable JAR.

./mvnw package

Running

You can create parent project poms with specified Spring Boot version.

java -jar -Dspring_boot.version=2.5.2 target/parent-creator-1.0.0.jar

Runtime Parameters

Following parameters can be set.

• spring_boot.version: Default: 2.3.3.RELEASE
• output.filename: Default: new_parent_pom.xml
• maven.repository.url: Default: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2