Apache Maven JDeps Plugin

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/04/2015 03:46, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
> last week, during DevoxxFR, Arnaud and I showed maven-jdeps-plugin: as
> expected, a lot of users didn't know about this tool
> So for sure, having this plugin and a report would help
>
> Then there is the question of: what should the report look like?
> Should it be a simple stdout dump of command line result? ugly...
>
> During DevoxxFR, I saw a graph of Java modules dependencies: having a report
> putting info on this graph could really be more expressive than console.
>
> Is there an html report available for jdeps?
> Should we parse text output to work on a graphic report? (seems hard...)
>
jdeps can produce .dot files when you use -dotoutput. You can then you 
use Graphviz layout or other tools to draw graphs. Would that help?

-Alan.