Category Archives: WebJars

WebJars Officially Launched!

Check it out: webjars.org Back in April I started an experiment called “WebJars” to see if it would be useful to package web libraries (JavaScript, CSS, etc) as Jar files. WebJars allow you to declaratively set client-side application dependencies just like we do for the server-side. A nice side effect of this is transitive dependencies. [...]

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WebJars in Spring MVC

Last week I announced the WebJars project that allows you to specify your web libraries (JavaScript, CSS, etc) as dependencies in your Java web applications. With some help from Jeremy Grelle I was able to get a simple WebJars Spring MVC example working. First you will need to add the WebJars repository to your build. [...]

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Introducing WebJars – Web Libraries as Managed Dependencies

Update: I’ve created a Spring MVC WebJars example. Update 2: Ukrainian translation here – http://softdroid.net/vvedennya-webjars by Eclipse Android. Update 3: WebJars.org has been officially launched! Learn more. Our web apps are using more and more web libraries like jQuery, Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap. The traditional way to use those libraries is to locate & download [...]

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