Gradle IzPack plugin

Over the past couple of years this plugin has seen many releases. Thanks to everyone involved! Unfortunately, I don't have much time to contribute anymore. In practice this means far less activity, responsiveness on issues and new releases from my end.

I am actively looking for contributors willing to take on maintenance and implementation of the project. If you are interested and would love to see this plugin continue to thrive, shoot me a mail.

The plugin provides a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications for the Java platform using IzPack.

Usage

To use the IzPack plugin, include in your build script:

plugins {
    id 'com.bmuschko.izpack' version '3.2'
}

The plugin JAR needs to be defined in the classpath of your build script. It is directly available on the Gradle plugin portal. The following code snippet shows a usage example:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        gradlePluginPortal()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.bmuschko:gradle-izpack-plugin:3.2'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.bmuschko.izpack'

To define the IzPack standalone compiler dependency please use the izpack configuration name in your dependencies closure.

For IzPack v5

dependencies {
    izpack 'org.codehaus.izpack:izpack-ant:5.1.3'
}

or for IzPack v4

dependencies {
    izpack 'org.codehaus.izpack:izpack-standalone-compiler:4.3.5'
}

Tasks

The IzPack plugin defines the following tasks:

• izPackCreateInstaller: Creates an IzPack-based installer.

Convention properties

The IzPack plugin defines the following convention properties in the izpack closure:

• baseDir: The base directory of compilation process (defaults to build/assemble/izpack).
• installerType: The installer type (defaults to standard). You can select between standard and web.
• installFile: The location of the IzPack installation file (defaults to src/main/izpack/install.xml).
• outputFile: The installer output directory and filename (defaults to build/distributions/<projectname>-<version>-installer.jar).
• compression: The compression of the installation (defaults to default). You can select between default, deflate and raw.
• compressionLevel: The compression level of the installation (defaults to -1 for no compression). Valid values are -1 to 9.
• appProperties: The Map of application properties to be used for the compilation process (defaults to empty Map).

Example

izpack {
    baseDir = file("$buildDir/assemble/izpack")
    installFile = file('installer/izpack/installer.xml')
    outputFile = file("$buildDir/distributions/griffon-${version}-installer.jar")
    compression = 'deflate'
    compressionLevel = 9
    appProperties = ['app.group': 'Griffon', 'app.name': 'griffon', 'app.title': 'Griffon',
                     'app.version': version, 'app.subpath': "Griffon-$version"]
}