First Eclipse project using Apache Ivy

For installation of IvDE plugin in eclipse refer to this post.

In this post I'll discuss getting started with first project using Ivy.

Steps:

• Create a new project in eclipse. (In the usual way)
• Right click on the project in project explorer and then click on new --> other and search for 'ivy file'. Create a new Ivy file. You will get a template file.

Modify the contents of this file so that it looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<ivy-module version="2.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ant.apache.org/ivy/schemas/ivy.xsd">
    <info
        organisation="com.test"
        module="Test"
        status="integration">
 </info>
 <dependencies>
    <dependency org="commons-validator" name="commons-validator" rev="1.3.1"/>
 </dependencies>
</ivy-module>

• This says that we have one dependency on "commons-validator". Search your dependencies on the maven repo and add it to your ivy file.
• Once you have added all the dependencies, right click on the ivy.xml file and click add Ivy Library. This will add all the dependencies to your project transitively.
• Create a Test class in com.test package in your project which has following contents:

package com.test;

import org.apache.commons.validator.GenericValidator;

public class Test {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  if (GenericValidator.isEmail("lavishkothari004@gmail.com")) {
   System.out.println("the entered Email is valid.");
  } else {
   System.out.println("the entered email is not valid");
  }
 }

}

Run the project using Ctrl+F11.