These guidelines help our many different Java projects and libraries to work together.

For easier collaboration, visibility, backup and version control, please create a repository at https://github.com/AKSW. Please only create a public repository if possible, as the number of private ones is limited.

Maven 3 pom.xml template (change the compiler source to your liking):

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelversion>4.0.0</modelversion>
    <groupid>org.aksw.projectname</groupid>
    <artifactid>projectname</artifactid>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
            <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
            <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
            <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupid>junit</groupid>
            <artifactid>junit</artifactid>
            <version>4.12</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupid>org.slf4j</groupid>
            <artifactid>slf4j-log4j12</artifactid>
            <version>1.7.13</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupid>org.slf4j</groupid>
            <artifactid>slf4j-api</artifactid>
            <version>1.7.13</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

If you have a stable project, create a release (non-snapshot) version, as it decrease network traffic and increase speed tremendously.

SLF4j is a collection of interfaces for logger abstraction, which .

Please always use UTF-8 encoding. Line endings will usually handled by git so that you can choose those as you prefer.