Consider publishing jar artifacts to Maven Central

[heuermh]

For downstream projects, it would be nice if the jar artifacts from this repository and the upstream graph repository were published to Maven Central.

See e.g.
https://github.com/armin-reichert/mazes/blob/master/settings.gradle#L4

I could give a hand if that would be considered helpful.

Then I know this is kinda silly but it made me happy:

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Cheers!

[armin-reichert]

Hello Michael,

honestly, I have no no idea how to publish artifacts to Maven central and I am not sure if my projects are worth it.

Nevertheless. I appreciate any help in doing it.

Regards
Armin

[heuermh]

Hello, Armin, thank you for the quick reply! I have published via maven before but not with gradle; I will look into it and post some docs and/or pull request the necessary changes.

[armin-reichert]

Just looked over the projects, updated them to Java 21 and cleaned up some dependencies (logging).

They all have Maven support (Gradle is not relevant yet). Currently, It is sufficient to synch them fro Git and call mvn clean install in the right order. Not sure if the effort to publishing to Maven central is worth it.

I have added a section to the README on how to build the library and the Swing demo app.