PIA - Project Initialization Assistant

PIA Core

PIA was created to ease the process of setting up new projects. It allows to write plugins which are loaded into the PIA core and extend the functionality.

A plugin is designed to create a subproject, link subprojects together or extend them.

Each plugin offers properties to configure the creation process (this may be a package name for a java project creator, for example).

After configuration phase, the core wires everything together and executes all desired plugins.

Plugins

To write a plugin, simply create a class that extends Plugin and is annotated with @PluginMetadata(...). Properties that should be entered by the end user are annotated with @Property

import com.pia.core.plugin.Plugin;
import com.pia.core.annotation.PluginMetadata;
import com.pia.core.annotaion.Property;

@PluginMetadata(name = "My fancy plugin name")
public class MyTestPlugin extends Plugin {
    @Property()
    private String setByGUI;
}

PIA GUI

The provided JavaFX GUI searches all .jar-files that are in a plugins-directory next to the executable for valid plugins. If offers the user to select a list of plugins that should be executed und provides an easy way to set all properties.

• Place the plugins in the correct folder:

  |--plugins
     |-- plugin-library-1.jar
     |-- plugin-library-2.jar
  gui-version.jar
  

• Start the GUI: java -jar gui-version.jar