#ScriptingWithJava.sh

ScriptingWithJava is a shellscript helping you to make Java usable as a scripting language.

##Goal

Typical production servers do not provide tools like maven or gradle meanwhile OpenJDK is available. So edit and recompile Java programs in SSH-Sessions is possible but unhandy.

##Requirements

• You are willing to deploy you Java application in source form as .java files.
• All your java files exits in a flat folder.
• All classes are member of the same package.
• Only one class can be declared public.
• The App-Name defined as $PROG must match the Name of the public class.
• The public class must contain the public static void main method.

##Functional principle

When this script is called, it compares the change date of the Java program with the compiled jar (or class) file and decides if a recompile/rebuild is necessary before execution.

##TODO

• Support for additional jar files (dependencies)
• Support for non existing Package-Name (default package)