Maven dependency for org.webjars - Version 4.0.0 of font-awesome released
The developers of org.webjars - font-awesome project have released the latest version of this library on 27 Oct 2013, the released version of org.webjars - font-awesome library is 4.0.0. Developer can use this version ( org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 ) in their Java project if it is based on Maven and Gradle.
How to use org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 in project?
Steps to use org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 in Java projects. Follow the step by step tutorial for using the latest version of org.webjars - font-awesome in your Maven/Gradle project.
Step 1: Create or use a Maven project
First of all you have to create a new Java project based on maven project management tool if you don't have any previous project. You can download the simple project from Sample Maven project. You can import the sample project in Eclipse IDE or you can open your project in Eclipse or in any other IDE of your choice.
Step 2: Include the maven dependency of org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0
Now the next step is to use the latest dependency for maven of the org.webjars - braid library library in the pom.xml fie of your project. You have to copy the code given below:
<dependency> <groupId>org.webjars</groupId> <artifactId>font-awesome</artifactId> <version>4.0.0</version> </dependency>
Above code is the maven dependency code that downloads and includes org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 java library in your project.
Now you can save the file in Eclipse and then Eclipse will call maven tool for downloading the jar files. Once the jar files are downloaded it will be included in the project and you will be able to use org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 library in your project.
Step 3: Now you are ready to use the org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 in your project
Now you will be able to import the library in your project and use it.
Step 4: Finding the maven dependency tree
Sometimes it is required to check the dependency tree of the maven project to find out the jar conflicts, then you can use the Maven dependency plugin. The Maven dependency plugin is used to list down the the dependency in the project. The dependency:tree option of the mvn command line tool can be used to see the dependency tree of the given project. After adding the Maven dependency of org.webjars - font-awesome version 4.0.0 in your pom.xml file you can run following command on the terminal:
mvn dependency:tree
Above command will list down the dependency of your project. This way you will be able to find out any jar conflict issue of the project.
Gradle Dependency
If you project is based on Gradle then you can use following dependency code:
implementation group: 'org.webjars', name: 'font-awesome', version: '4.0.0'
Above code will enable the Gradle to down org.webjars - font-awesome dependency jar and include in the project.
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