PF4J : Quickstart

There are two really good reasons to create a PF4J quickstart. The first is if you just want to get started using PF4J quickly. The quickstart will set up a ready-to-use project in under a minute (depending on your bandwidth). Another great reason to create a quickstart is to accompany a bug report. If you report a bug in Github or on the mailing list, the core developers may not be able to recreate it easily.

Quickstarts are made from a Maven archetype. So, you will need to have Maven installed and working (from the command line) before following this.

Creating a quickstart provides only a very basic starting point for your PF4J project. If you are looking for examples of how to use PF4J and its various features, please refer to the demo projects instead!

To create your project you must follow these steps:

create your quickstart project:

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.pf4j \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=pf4j-quickstart \
  -DarchetypeVersion=3.6.0 \
  -DgroupId=com.mycompany \
  -DartifactId=myproject

maybe you want to change groupId, artifactId and archetypeVersion (the latest PF4J version)

run your application from command line:

cd myproject
chmod u+x run.sh
./run.sh

For more information, please see this comment.

PF4J Plugin Framework for Java

Quickstart