Publish JAR

[johnjelinek]

Could you please publish this gem as something that can be brought in on the JVM? Seems like this has been done for some other backends:

• https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj-epub3
• https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj-pdf

[obilodeau]

I have no idea how to do this... Since this is volunteer work, I'm not interested in doing it either. I haven't written Java since University when gradle and maven didn't even exist (or were not popular). That said, if someone does the packaging and I only need to keep it current via simple updates, I'm willing to maintain it.

For the record, this is what happened with Asciidoctor.js support and Doctests. Someone else did it but I maintain it diligently. It can work. Are you willing to do the initial push?

[mojavelinux]

Generally, the translation to an AsciidoctorJ JAR is handled by the AsciidoctorJ team. As more extensions get redistributed this way, the process of automating those builds improves so they require very little minimal maintenance. Ideally, the release would happen automatically.

That being said, it's possible to use a gem without the extra packaging. The following example demonstrates how: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-examples/blob/master/asciidoc-to-revealjs-example/pom.xml So it's inaccurate to say it can't be used on the JVM now.

[mojavelinux]

cc: @robertpanzer

[robertpanzer]

I can take care of that.
I can’t give a timeline though, maybe I’ll get sth done over the holidays.

[mojavelinux]

Cool! The converter is popular enough that I believe the effort would be worthwhile.

[obilodeau]

Generally, the translation to an AsciidoctorJ JAR is handled by the AsciidoctorJ team.

Once the initial packaging process is done (the scary, unknown part for me), I'm willing to attempt to send PRs to AsciidoctorJ to update the JAR. Just like I do to update asciidoctor.org website right now anyways.

I'm going to close this with these last words: If you need this, open an issue on the AsciidoctorJ repo.

[robertpanzer]

I already created a rep for that at robertpanzer/asciidoctorj-reveal.js. It’s just waiting for the transfer into the asciidoctor org

[mojavelinux]

Oh, I can help with that! You should be able to transfer now. Give it a try.

[robertpanzer]

Awesome, thanks. I’ll try it over the weekend

[robertpanzer]

I created a release candidate that can be used like this:

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
        <artifactId>asciidoctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.0-RC.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <backend>revealjs</backend>
          <requires>
            <require>asciidoctor-revealjs</require>
          </requires>
          <attributes>
            <imagesdir>${project.build.directory}/generated-docs</imagesdir>
            <revealjsdir>https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/reveal.js/3.7.0</revealjsdir>
          </attributes>
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
            <artifactId>asciidoctorj</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.0</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
            <artifactId>asciidoctorj-revealjs</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0-rc.2</version>
          </dependency>
    <dependencies>
  </plugin>
...
    <profile>
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
          <id>bintray-asciidoctor-maven</id>
          <name>bintray</name>
          <url>https://dl.bintray.com/asciidoctor/maven</url>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
          </snapshots>
          <id>bintray-asciidoctor-maven</id>
          <name>bintray-plugins</name>
          <url>https://dl.bintray.com/asciidoctor/maven</url>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
      <id>bintray</id>
    </profile>

[obilodeau]

Should we add a reference to the asciidoctor/asciidoctorj-reveal.js repo in our README as another installation option?

[robertpanzer]

Great idea!
Let's do this after I have released the first final version.

[robertpanzer]

Asciidoctorj-revealjs is now available at jcenter and at https://search.maven.org/artifact/org.asciidoctor/asciidoctorj-revealjs/3.1.0/jar

[johnjelinek]

I can't believe this day has finally come!

[obilodeau]

Request for comments on the PR with README adjustments: #337

Last issue before 4.0.0 🤞