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In this article we’ll guide you through building sample java application from scratch or using Maven. We’ll reference GroupDocs.Viewer for Java and render sample.docx file to HTML.
NoteThe hello-world-java.zip contains source code of the application that we’re going to build.
Make sure that you have JDK installed on your system
- As example you can install JDK on Ubuntu by typing
apt-get install default-jdk - Windows users can find installation packages at Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
To make sure that JDK is installed you can type java -version. In this case I’m using Ubuntu and the output is the following:
java -version
The output would depend on the version of JDK you have installed and your environment:
openjdk version "11.0.13" 2021-10-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.13 +8-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1.20.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.13+8-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1. 20.04, mixed mode, sharing)
Create a folder for our app and navigate into it:
mkdir hello-world && cd hello-world
Create App.java file by typing
cat > App.java
Add the following code to the App.java using text editor or printf utility
import com.groupdocs.viewer.Viewer;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.options.HtmlViewOptions;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.docx");
HtmlViewOptions viewOptions = HtmlViewOptions.forEmbeddedResources();
viewer.view(viewOptions);
}
}
Download the latest version of GroupDocs.Viewer for Java from GroupDocs Artifact Repository manually or by typing wget https://releases.groupdocs.com/java/repo/com/groupdocs/groupdocs-viewer/21.11.1/groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar
Download sample.docx file that we’ll be rendering using wget:
wget https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer/GroupDocs.Viewer-for-Java/raw/master/Examples/resources/sample_files/sample.docx
Compile our app using javac Java Compiler. The new file App.class will be created.
Windows:
javac -d . -cp ".;./groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar" App.java
Linux:
javac -d . -cp ".:./groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar" App.java
Type ls to list list files in the folder and there will be four files:
App.class App.java groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar sample.docx
Now, we can run our app using Java Runtime Environment (JRE) by typing:
Windows:
java -cp ".;./groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar" App
Linux:
java -cp ".:./groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar" App
After our app executed we can check that the new HTML files has been created. List files in current folder with ls.
App.class App.java groupdocs-viewer-21.11.1.jar p_1.html p_2.html sample.docx
NoteThe hello-world-maven.zip contains source code of the application that we’re going to build.
To get started make sure Maven is installed in your system. To check if Maven is installed open a terminal and type mvn -v. You’ll see output similar to the following:
mvn -v
The output will be similar to the following:
Java version: 11.0.13, vendor: Ubuntu, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: ANSI_X3.4-1968
OS name: "linux", version: "4.19.104-microsoft-standard", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
Having Maven installed let’s create simple project called hello-world:
mvn -B archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=hello-world -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=1.4
Navigate to the hello-world folder by executing:
cd hello-world
Our Maven project will contain pom.xml file and src folder.
Lets now add GroupDocs Artifact Repository to our pom.xml project file so we can reference GroupDocs.Viewer for Java package.
...
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>GroupDocs Artifact Repository</id>
<name>GroupDocs Artifact Repository</name>
<url>https://releases.groupdocs.com/java/repo/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
...
Add GroupDocs.Viewer for Java as a dependency:
...
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>com.groupdocs</groupId>
<artifactId>groupdocs-viewer</artifactId>
<version>21.11.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
...
We also need to add exec-maven-plugin so we can execute our application.
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<mainClass>com.mycompany.app.App</mainClass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
Download sample.docx file that we’ll be rendering using our app. You can use wget utility to download a file from a terminal by executing:
wget https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer/GroupDocs.Viewer-for-Java/raw/master/Examples/resources/sample_files/sample.docx
Open ./src/main/java/com/mycompany/app/App.java file using a text editor and replace existing code with the following:
package com.mycompany.app;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.Viewer;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.options.HtmlViewOptions;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.docx");
HtmlViewOptions viewOptions = HtmlViewOptions.forEmbeddedResources();
viewer.view(viewOptions);
}
}
Now we’re ready to build our application, to download dependencies and build our project execute:
mvn compile
After we compiled our application we can run it by executing:
mvn exec:java
To check that our sample.docx file was rendered lets execute ls in the current directory:
p_1.html p_2.html pom.xml sample.docx src target
As you can see that the sample.docx file was rendered and two HTML files p_1.html and p_2.html created in the current directory.
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