blog/2011/10/hello-maven-central/ walks you through the basics of using docx4j in an Eclipse project with the help of m2eclipse.

This post is about the different ways you can set up docx4j 3.0 with the help of Maven.

We’ll be using the following skeleton pom.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
		
	<groupId>your.group</groupId>
	<artifactId>your.artifactp</artifactId>
	<name>nameless</name>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<description>
		some description
	</description>


	<properties>
		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
	</properties>

	<build>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>2.0</version>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
	
	<dependencies>
	
		<!-- dependencies go here -->

				 	
	</dependencies>

</project>

Adding the core dependency

To use docx4j, including its LGPL XHTML import capability, just include the following dependency in your pom.xml:

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.docx4j</groupId>
			<artifactId>docx4j-ImportXHTML</artifactId>
			<version>3.0.0</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.docx4j</groupId>
			<artifactId>docx4j</artifactId>
			<version>3.0.0</version>
		</dependency>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.docx4j</groupId>
			<artifactId>docx4j-ImportXHTML</artifactId>
			<version>3.0.0</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
					  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>log4j</groupId>
					<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>				
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>

On behalf of everyone who has contributed to docx4j, Plutext is pleased to announce that version 3 was released today.

You can get it from Maven Central, or from http://www.docx4java.org/docx4j/ (the jar, the dependencies, or everything including documentation zipped up)

Source code is available at GitHub or from the Maven Central link above.  Javadoc is at Maven Central.

For what you need to know about docx4j 3.0, please see this post.

The XHTML Import stuff is now a separate project (since it and its dependencies are LGPL, not ASLv2 like docx4j).

• the three jars you need (docx4j-ImportXHTML, xhtmlrenderer, and iText) are included for convenience in the zip file above.  You can delete them if you don’t need or want XHTML import.
• or you can get it from Maven Central

docx4j 3.0 uses slf4j for logging.  For convenience, log4j is the default implementation.  A follow-up post will explain more about logging config.

Thanks to everyone who has helped to make this release our best yet!

If you have questions pertaining to the use of docx4j, please post them in our forum, or on StackOverflow (rather than in comments to this post).

A beta of docx4j 3.0 is now available, at:

http://www.docx4java.org/docx4j/docx4j-3_0-beta2.zip [link updated 15 Nov]

That zip file contains docx4j, and all its dependencies.  To use it, add all the jars to your classpath.

Alternatively, Maven users can get the beta from our staging repo on GitHub.

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>docx4j-mvn-repo</id>
        <url>https://raw.github.com/plutext/docx4j/mvn-repo/</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>

docx4j 3.0 beta is:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.docx4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>docx4j</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Our last blog post outlines the major things to be aware of in v3.

Additional notes:

• For convenience, the zip file also contains docx4j-ImportXHTML, and its dependencies, which are LGPL.  You can delete these if you wish.  They aren’t in the mvn staging repo.
• To see any logging, you’ll need to add an slf4j implementation.
• You might want to add a docx4j.properties file

You can find updated Getting Started guide in docx|pdf formats at http://www.docx4java.org/docx4j/.

Feedback welcome.  You can reply here, or to the post in the docx4j forums.

All going smoothly, we’ll progress to final release over the next couple of weeks, so the sooner your feedback, the better!