How to use Xeger lib with maven

It will be useful for you if you need to get text which can be match with your existing regular expression in JAVA.

Recently a had same question. I use Xeger (http://code.google.com/p/xeger/).

First of all you need to download JAR from http://code.google.com/p/xeger/.

Next you need to run in command line next command:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=~/Downloads/xeger-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar -DgroupId=nl.flotsam -DartifactId=xeger -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar

There is linux-path to JAR file (~/Downloads/xeger-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar). groupId, artifactId, version …. for xeger-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file. If you use another you need make some changes in command.

Next you need to copy JAR file in to .m2/repository/nl/flotsam/xeger/1.0-SNAPSHOT dir

in order to use Xeger you need also install in maven repository the dk.brics.automaton package.

Here part of my pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupid>nl.flotsam</groupid>
    <artifactid>xeger</artifactid>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupid>dk.brics</groupid>
    <artifactid>automaton</artifactid>
    <version>1.11</version>
</dependency>

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Have a nice codding!