BukkitDependencyLoader

Are you a plugin developer?
Are you tired of huge JAR files?
Do you want to reduce the file size of your plugin?
Do you want to prevent loading the same library multiple times?

The solution is here:

BukkitDependencyLoader

This plugin allows you to load dependencies from any Maven-compatible source directly into the server.
No need to shade your plugins anymore!

Simply add a dependency on this plugin and create a file called dependencies.conf and add each Maven artifact like this:

Add this to your plugin.yml :

Code (Text):

depend: [BukkitDependencyLoader]

Put lines like this into the dependencies.conf :

Code (Text):

artifact=<groupid>:<artifactid>:<version>

You can even specify other repositories:

Code (Text):

repository=<id>:<url>

The libraries will be downloaded and made available to all plugins.
Java takes care of preventing duplicates.

An example implementation can be found here.

The dependencies.conf looks like this:

That plugin is completely written in Kotlin but there is no need to shade Kotlin into the JAR, as this plugin loads all libraries prior to loading that plugin.