rmannibucau/maven-color

simple jar to replace slf4j-simple.jar in maven/lib to get colors

Installation

just replace $MAVEN_HOME/lib/slf4j-simple-*.jar with maven-color.jar. and add jansi-1.11.jar in the same folder.

Build

mvn clean install

Configuration

Handled colors are configurable, here are the defaults (key and values):

Key	Value
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.TRACE	GREEN
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.DEBUG	GREEN
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.ERROR	RED
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.WARN	YELLOW
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.INFO	DEFAULT
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.INFO	DEFAULT
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.default	DEFAULT
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.build.success	GREEN
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.build.failed	RED
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.plugin	BLUE
org.slf4j.simpleLogger.color.separator	BLUE

You need to edit ${maven.home}/conf/logging/simplelogger.properties file.

Skip colors

For batch executions or when redirecting output, you can disable colors by setting property maven.colors.skip to true

MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS -Dmaven.colors.skip=true" mvn compile

Sample

Experimental

The produced jar by maven build is executable and can setup maven:

export MAVEN_HOME=...
java -jar maven-color.jar

or

java -jar maven-color.jar /path/to/maven/home