xplr

JAR Meta-Info Explorer

xplr is a self-contained Java 8 CLI utility, which traverses recursively folders, searches for JARs, extracts the versioning information from manifest.mf and pom.xml and generates mvn install:install-file statements.

xplr is helpful for extracting dependency information for Maven dependencies from "legacy" JARs.

Sample output:

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Directory: .
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# Jar: ./original-xplr.jar
## Manifest: 
## Package: com.airhacks.xplr
Archiver-Version:Plexus Archiver
Built-By:abien
Created-By:Apache Maven 3.3.3
Build-Jdk:1.8.0_77
Manifest-Version:1.0

## POM: 
<dependency>
 <groupId>com.airhacks</groupId>
 <artifactId>xplr</artifactId>
 <version>0.0.1</version>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
</dependency>
## MVN install command: 
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=./original-xplr.jar -DgroupId=com.airhacks -DartifactId=xplr -Dversion=0.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar

Requirements

Java 8

Usage

java -jar xplr.jar [FOLDER] [CLASS NAME] or java -jar xplr.jar [JAR_FILE] [CLASS NAME]

FOLDER (optional): specifies the folder. Defaults to the current working directory

JAR_FILE: a jar in the current directory or a fully qualified path to the jar file.

CLASS NAME (optional): searches for jars containing the specified class name. The search is case insensitive.