This is a template that I have used a couple times to make simple Java applications.

libraries used

• Logback (successor to log4j)
• Maven (ugh)
• JCommander (Command-line Option parsing)
• Google Guice (dependency injection)
• Google Guava (all the goodies)
• Maven AppAssembler (to generate a self-contained java app with .bat and sh scripts)

This includes a couple example classes surrounding how to use JCommander and Google Guice for dependency injection. Logback includes a default logback.xml file that's annotated with my most commonly-used defaults.

Testing?

I'm sure there are a litany of testing frameworks out there (which language doesn't have at least 5 - 10 different tools for this?) but I haven't really settled on anything other than what I consider the vanilla choice: JUnit.

References

Since this relies on knowledge of alot of these frameworks, I would say these libraries provided me the msot documentation, which is part of the reason I picked them:

• Logback
  • Logback Manual
  • Configuring Logback (and the logback.xml file)
• Maven
  • Maven Filtering
  • Maven AppAssembler plugin (for generating .bat and sh script-runnable projects)
• JCommander
• Google Guice
• Google Guava
  • Java API
  • Guava Explained (what's in it)

Contact

Questions, concerns, etc., can be directed to me klauer @ gmail . com