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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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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+     xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
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+  <groupId>de.tobiasmanske</groupId>
+  <artifactId>example</artifactId>
+  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
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+  <properties>
+    <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
+    <intellij.version>203.7148.57</intellij.version>
+  </properties>
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+  <repositories>
+    <repository>
+      <id>jetbrains.releases</id>
+      <url>https://www.jetbrains.com/intellij-repository/releases</url>
+    </repository>
+    <repository>
+      <id>jetbrains.3rdparty</id>
+      <url>https://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/intellij-third-party-dependencies</url>
+    </repository>
+  </repositories>
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+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.0.0</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <phase>compile</phase>
+            <configuration>
+              <target>
+                <property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.runtime.classpath"/>
+                <path id="j2cp">
+                  <pathelement path="${compile_classpath}"/>
+                </path>
+                <path id="j2sp">
+                  <pathelement location="${project.basedir}/src/main/java"/>
+                </path>
+                <taskdef name="javac2" classpathref="j2cp" classname="com.intellij.ant.Javac2"/>
+                <javac2 destdir="${project.basedir}/target/classes">
+                  <classpath refid="j2cp"/>
+                  <src refid="j2sp"/>
+                </javac2>
+              </target>
+            </configuration>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>run</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.jetbrains.intellij.java</groupId>
+      <artifactId>java-gui-forms-rt</artifactId>
+      <version>${intellij.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.jetbrains.intellij.java</groupId>
+      <artifactId>java-compiler-ant-tasks</artifactId>
+      <version>${intellij.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
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That’s all for today, I hope this helped you, so that you don’t struggle with it for as long.

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