Cheat Sheet

Useful commands¶

Command	Description
`--doc`	Displays available methods, options and KBeans
`intellij: iml -f`	Generates iml file for Intellij.
`intellij: initProject`	Initializes Intellij Project
`eclipse: files`	Same purpose as above to generate metadata files for Eclipse.
`project: scaffold`	Generates files to create a basic Jeka project from scratch.
`project: pack`	Build jars and others optional artifacts from a project
`base: scaffold`	Creates files a base workspace without project.

Property Name	Default Value	Description
jeka.version		The Jeka version to use. It will be fetched from the repository specified in the `jeka.distrib.repo` property. Use `jeka.version=.` to force the use of the locally installed version.
jeka.distrib.repo	https://repo1.maven.org/maven2	The repo where to fetch JeKa versions. Use https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots for snapshot versions
jeka.distrib.location		The exact location (file dir or url) to get the JeKa distribution. If set, both `jeka.version` and `jeka.distrib.repo` will be ignored.
jeka.java.version		The version of the JDK used to compile and run Java code
jeka.java.distrib	temurin	The distribution of JDK to fetch when `jeka.java.version` is mentioned
jeka.repos.download	local, mavenCentral	Comma separated string of repositories to fetch Maven dependencies. More details here
jeka.repos.publish		Comma separated string of repository to publish Maven artifacts. More details here
jeka.program.build	project: pack -Djeka.skip.tests=true	Cmd line to execute to build project when exec files are absents
jeka.default.kbean		Name or class name of the KBean to use as default (when none is specified)

if JEKA_JDK_HOME env var is specified, select it
if jeka.java.version property is specified
- if a jeka.jdk.[version] property is specified, select it.
- else, look in cache or download the proper JDK
else
- if JAVA_HOME env var is specified, select it
- else, look in cache and download default version (21)

JeKa reads properties in this order: