BUILD-CLASSPATH(1)

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💅 build-classpath — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, we're in section 1 of the JAVAPACKAGES manual and today's main character is build-classpath. buckle up, it's short but it's iconic 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

build-classpath — build a Java CLASSPATH. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it well 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

build-classpath JAR|artifact-coordinates [JAR|artifact-coordinates ...]

like, you just hand her a bunch of JARs or artifact coordinates and she goes. no cap. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this is a small utility (emphasis on small, she's compact and she knows it) that builds you a Java CLASSPATH out of the named JARs or Maven artifact coordinates. 💖

now let's talk artifact coordinates, because this is the part where people get lost and we are not doing that today:

  • artifact coordinates specify a Maven artifact, and the format is literally exactly this:
groupId:artifactId[:extension[:classifier]]:version
  • if the extension is omitted, then "jar" gets used. default slay.
  • if the classifier is omitted, then an empty classifier is used. also fine, also valid.
  • for more info, see the XMvn Configuration Reference. iykyk 📚

and where does the CLASSPATH go? straight to standard output. she doesn't write files, she doesn't make a scene, she just prints it. periodt. 🔥

🧚 DEPENDENCIES 🧚

okay listen, this one's important:

using build-classpath with artifact-coordinates requires the xmvn-resolve command to be available. 👑

and here's the vibe check: the user of build-classpath is responsible for making it available in the system. that's on you, bestie, not on her. 🙈

💜 EXAMPLES 💜

these are the moments, fr fr:

  • build-classpath junit xerces-j2 wsdl4j — this will return a string to standard out that is a valid CLASSPATH containing junit, xerces-j2, and wsdl4j JARs. 🍓
  • build-classpath log4j:log4j org.apache.commons:commons-io — this will return a string to standard out that is a valid CLASSPATH containing log4j and commons-io JARs. 🌈
  • build-classpath com.google.inject:guice::no_aop: — this will return a string to standard out that is a valid CLASSPATH containing google-guice JAR with classifier no_aop. look at that double colon doing its thing, we love a subtle icon 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

originally written by David Walluck. legend behavior, honestly. 🫶

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

bugs should be reported through the Java Packages Tools issue tracker at Github:

https://github.com/fedora-java/javapackages/issues

don't suffer in silence, tell the tracker. it's giving community. ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

(the original list ends with a comma and we're keeping it, because we don't erase history around here 🎀)

and that's the page!! this came out of the JAVAPACKAGES source, version/date stamp 2026-05-28, so if you're reading this on some other date just know she was immortalized on that one. mwah 💋✨

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