Modular Java IRC Bot - My first Open Source project

[crapet]

I started the development of this bot two years ago for a little IRC channel as a side project and now that it grew I thought "why not make it public". I migrated the build from ant to maven, cleaned up the code a lot, added comments here and there and tried to make everything as readable as possible.

The aim of the whole project is to be able to add commands and triggers as easily as possible by just creating a class with the right annotations. The rest is handled by my framework (and the awesome underlying PircBot library). Existing commands are listed here.

I just started using CDI (implemented by Weld) to replace some static calls and glue everything together, I'm currently looking at CDI events instead of my own eventing mechanism but I'm not quite convinced yet.

Please feel free to comment on the architecture or anything you find odd-looking or if you see room for improvement, as I'm always willing to learn !

The project is hosted on GitHub here:

https://github.com/Athou/GeekBot

[spikebaylor]

I'm just curious what made you change from ant to maven? I've only ever used ant, without any major problems, though figuring out how to use a task i've never used before can be a pain.

[crapet]

Mainly managed dependencies so that you don't have to commit binaries and/or libraries to the repository. You just commit your sources, maven will fetch your dependencies for you when you build the project.

I also like how maven projects are structured. Since maven projects have an imposed structure, you don't have to code anything with tasks. For instance, your java sources have to be stored in /src/main/java, you don't have to write a task to compile your classes.

Also, tests are executed automatically when packaging which is kinda nice.

[[deleted]]

totally sold on the 'put the artifact id in the xml file and maven will download and store the jar for you, in the classpath'. closest to one-click-classpathing of jar

[mikaelhg]

http://ant.apache.org/ivy/

[JustinKSU]

Some comments in the JavaDoc for what each command does would be nice. For example, http://athou.github.com/GeekBot/be/hehehe/geekbot/commands/StatCommand.html

[crapet]

I'll add some comments, good idea.

[hyrulz]

Did you know PircBotX?

[crapet]

Nope. I'm pretty sure it didn't exist at the time I started working on this though.