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Three Common Maven Questions

Posted on March 19, 2022June 23, 2022 by mfnalex

People just getting started with maven always ask me the same 3 questions, so here’s a a short FAQ! How to change the output directory / file name? Changing the file name and output directory of your .jar file simply requires some changes in the maven-jar-plugin. If you don’t have it inside your pom.xml yet,…

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Don’t jump off bridges, or: Why you shouldn’t use Exceptions to control code flow

Posted on March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 by mfnalex

Exceptions are a wonderful thing. They can let your code recover from unexpected situations in a nice and clean way, if you use them properly. That does not mean that you should always rely on them though. For example, imagine this: Most highways have guardrails in the middle to avoid cars going into oncoming traffic….

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Manually installing .jar files to your local Maven repository

Posted on March 11, 2022 by mfnalex

Sometimes you have a certain .jar file that you need as dependency, but the author of that .jar was too lazy to properly upload it to a public repository. That’s bad, but not a problem. There are two ways to solve this, but only one proper way. The proper way: install the dependency The proper…

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Why the GPL does NOT directly apply to all Spigot plugins

Posted on March 8, 2022March 19, 2022 by mfnalex

Many people claim that all Spigot plugins have to follow the GPL license. This is a common false statement made by people who have not studied the basics of contract law. Disclaimer The following text only represents the opinion of the author, who has studied law and is an approved lawyer in Germany as the…

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Accessing your main instance from another class

Posted on December 18, 2021December 18, 2021 by mfnalex

You often need a reference to your main instance (the instance of your class that extends JavaPlugin) in some of your other classes. There’s two basic concepts for this. Choose whichever you like more. Method #1: Static Getter First way is to create a static method called getInstance() or similar in your main class. You…

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Understanding Lambdas and Method References

Posted on December 6, 2021March 23, 2022 by mfnalex

Lambdas and Method references can be used to make your code way shorter, and (sometimes) more readable by getting rid of anonymous classes. What are Anonymous Classes? Anonymous classes are like local classes without a name. Imagine you have the following code: We hereby declare and instantiate a class implementing java.lang.Runnable that just prints some…

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NMS: Use Mojang mappings for your Spigot plugins with Maven

Posted on December 2, 2021April 6, 2022 by mfnalex

If you need to access NMS classes from inside your Spigot plugin, it is a very good idea to use the so called Mojang mappings. What are Mojang mappings? Mojang is obfuscating certain method and field names before shipping Minecraft. That means you will have a very bad experience when you want to access NMS…

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Give your variables descriptive names, FFS!

Posted on October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 by mfnalex

Most people who get started with Spigot development somehow think it’s a good idea to make everything as short as possible (at least in terms of naming variables). This is considered bad practice for a good reason. What’s the problem? Let’s imagine this is your code: In this example, it is obvious in line 4…

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Avoiding the arrow anti-pattern

Posted on October 9, 2021 by mfnalex

When you read this, chances are high that someone saw your code and decided that you did something that is considered horribly bad: using the arrow anti-pattern. What the arrow anti-pattern is Look at the following code: It looks like a huge arrow (>) symbol. It’s ugly, unreadable and hard to maintain. Now, let’s say…

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Using NMS classes with Maven

Posted on October 9, 2021 by mfnalex

Many people are confused on how to use NMS classes when they’re new to writing Bukkit/Spigot plugins because their IDE doesn’t find those classes. Don’t worry. What is NMS? NMS refers to net.minecraft.server. This package contains all the classes that Mojang wrote for the vanilla Minecraft Server. You can use them to change the server’s…

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