Is there a way to auto-create a file with dependencies in Java and auto-install them?

Question

The idea of keeping all open source libraries in my repo doesn't sound to me as a good practice. Any ideas? I do know this can easily be done in Python using virtual environment, is there there such a way in Java?

Answer 1

There are some build tools which can manage dependencies:

• maven (xml configuration)
• gradle (groovy configuration)
• apache ivy (xml configuration, used by ant)