jardb

JarDB

Quickly find JARs providing a certain Java class

In the past I got in the situation from time to time that I needed a specific Java class for some task and I didn't know which Java library provided that class. Enter JarDB: It lets you build an index of the JAR files on your computer (e.g. in the $HOME/.m2/ folder) and all the classes they provide:

$ jardb index ~/.m2

The command above indexes all JARs and their Java classes for a fast lookup like this:

$ jardb find com.sun.star.lib.unoloader.UnoLoader

You can use JarDB to find a class by its fully qualified name or by parts of the name (e.g. UnoLoader). To make JarDB more comfortable to use, you can also provide the class you're searching for as a path like in com/sun/star/lib/unoloader/UnoLoader.class.

Installation

If you have a Go installation on your computer just issue go get github.com/makkes/jardb and you're ready to go.

Otherwise, grab the most current release.