build-dependencies-unjar/README.md

Unjar dependency files into your projects bin/classes directory.

# Unjar build dependencies
This is an extension you can use to unjar the dependency jar files into your `bin/classes` directory. This is useful if you want to use npm as your [build tool](http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool/), e.g. to build your Java applications.

## General usage
In order to use this script, create the following config properties in your `package.json` file (Note: config option `dependencies_dest` optional and defaults to 'lib'):

```
"config": {
    "dependencies_dest": "lib",
    "dependencies": [
      "some-dependency-3.4.5.jar"
    ]
}
```

Then the only thing you have to do is creating a scripts part in your `package.json` in order to collect the dependencies and add this extension into your dev-dependencies:

```
"devDependencies": {
    "build-dependencies-unjar": "^1.0.0"
},
"scripts": {
    "dependencies-unjar": "build-dependencies-unjar"
  }
```