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.

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.

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>

  <groupId>de.tobiasmanske</groupId>
  <artifactId>example</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <properties>
    <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    <intellij.version>203.7148.57</intellij.version>
  </properties>

  <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>

  <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>

That’s all for today, I hope this helped you, so that you don’t struggle with it for as long.