Mavenize the Moneydance libs

The main goal is to have a parent POM file so that in your Maven project you can just do

  <dependencies>
...
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.moneydance.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>md-parent</artifactId>
      <version>2020.1917</version>
      <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

and things will simply work.

This sounds like a lot of overhead work but trusts me. Setting this up will make developing extension in MD a lot more pleasant. Especially if your day-to-day environment is in Maven.

You can launch a dev instance of MD without having to worry about messing your day-to-day (production) MD instance.
Most IDE (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA ...) nowadays will support import Maven projects.
You can switch between release with a single line change in the pom.xml. This will make it very easy to handle supporting multiple version of MD in a single code base (create branch MDv1, MDv2 and so on).
Your extension project will look cleaner. It will be easier to create unit tests.

What you need to do

Clone the following repo

git clone https://bitbucket.org/hleofxquotesteam/md-maven.git
cd md-maven

Install the MD Maven plugin: md-maven-plugin. We will use this plugin in the next step (md-maven-install)
```
cd md-maven-plugin
mvn clean install
```
Then run md-maven-install to download and install the MD Maven lib jars to your local repo. Note: this step will download the current MD previewdl distribution (about 140MB). It is fairly large, so please patient.
```
cd ../md-maven-install
mvn clean install
```
Now build md-maven-utils to verify that the MD dependencies were installed correctly
```
cd ../md-maven-utils/
mvn clean package
```

If you are seeing error

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project md-maven-utils: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.hleofxquotes.md:md-maven-utils:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Failure to find com.moneydance.maven:md-parent:pom:2020.1917 in https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of central has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]

That means your copy of md-maven-utils is slightly older than the current version of MD you just downloaded in the previous step. In most cases, you just need to make a small update

Get the current version

$ cat ../md-maven-install/download/version.txt 
2020 (1918)

Then update file poxm.xml, change

    <moneydance.version>2020.1917</moneydance.version>
to
    <moneydance.version>2020.1918</moneydance.version>

Use it yourself

Now try a simple Maven project,

Add to your project POM

  <dependencies>
...
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.moneydance.maven</groupId>
      <artifactId>md-parent</artifactId>
      <version>2020.1917</version>
      <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

Create a class that has reference to MD class. Something like this

package com.xyz.java.md;

import com.moneydance.apps.md.controller.Main;

public class MdMain extends com.moneydance.apps.md.controller.Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main.DEBUG = true;
    }
}

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Mavenize the Moneydance libs

What you need to do

Use it yourself

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