This project explores common infrastructure and best practices for open source Java projects for the Google Cloud Platform.

Google Cloud Platform Java Dependency Dashboard (runs daily; work in progress) shows multiple checks on the consistency among Google Cloud Java libraries. For manually generating the dashboard, see its README.

The Java Library Best Practices are a set of rules that we believe will minimize problems for consumers of interconnected Java libraries.

Linkage Checker Enforcer Rule is a Maven enforcer rule that detects linkage errors in the current project.

Google Libraries BOM is a Bill-of-Materials (BOM) that provides consistent versions of Google Cloud Java libraries that work together without linkage errors. To understand how BOMs help library users avoid dependency conflicts, read Declaring Dependencies on Google Java Libraries

This project is built using Maven.

1. (Optional) The Google Cloud SDK; install this somewhere on your file system. This tool is used for uploading Google Cloud Platform Java Dependency Dashboard to Google Cloud Storage.

2. Maven 3.5.0 or later.

3. JDK 8

4. git

5. Clone the project to a local directory using git clone git@github.com:GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java.git.