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I currently moving to java from PHP.
Is there any tools equivalent like composer in PHP for JAVA?

Composer is a command line tools for easily download other library and put that in our local project.

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    Have you tried building your project with maven? Commented May 24, 2014 at 10:56
  • @Mureinik No, i really new to java :) Commented May 24, 2014 at 10:59
  • Maven is your godsend for implementing libraries. You just add the dependency to your pom.xml and boom. Commented May 25, 2014 at 0:39

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The most popular tools for that are: Maven, Ivy, Grape, Gradle, Bundlr, SBT, Leiningen, but they're keeping dependencies for all projects in one folder. Composer keeps dependencies inside a project, in a subdirectory.

You can browse content of main Maven repository: https://mvnrepository.com/

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What if the dependency itself is a self developed library? e.g. I have a java jar 'abc' and this 'abc' is a dependency to my actual project. I want to use a specific branch of 'abc' (i.e. checking out the right branch, building it, and installing it so that it could be used in the main project). see my question here: stackoverflow.com/questions/34010168/…
In Composer there's -alias for that, in Maven-based dependency management there's -version (a number) and optional -type and -attempt (those can be words, any, except date or "SNAPSHOT") which can be used to name the feature you've added.

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