In 2021 I worked in a small team of students on an old fashioned Java swing application. To design our forms rather fast, we chose to opt for the IJ-GUI designer.

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That was a rather annoying mistake, trying to package that thing just hours before the deadline. -We then opted to just let IntelliJ compile the .forms into .java directly, which then cluttered our version control.

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So today I present you a minimal pom.xml compiling forms on the fly. A complete minimal working example can be found on my private git: git.tobiasmanske.de

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That turned out to be a rather annoying mistake, trying to package the Software just hours before the deadline.We were unable to come up with a solution to compile the forms on our build server in that short time. +So, we then opted to just let IntelliJ compile the .forms into .java directly, which then cluttered our version control.

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Today I present you the fix: A minimal pom.xml compiling forms on the fly. A complete minimal working example can be found on my private git: git.tobiasmanske.de

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