Collection of single-file java libraries with minimal to no dependencies, inspired by the stb libraries.

Too quote Sean Barrett on his philosophy of the stb libraries:

Philosophy

stb libraries are designed with the following priorities:

1. easy to use
2. easy to maintain
3. good performance

Sometimes I let "good performance" creep up in priority over "easy to maintain", and for best performance I may provide less-easy-to-use APIs that give higher performance, in addition to the easy-to-use ones. Nevertheless, it's important to keep in mind that from the standpoint of you, a client of this library, all you care about is #1 and #3, and stb libraries DO NOT emphasize #3 above all.

Some secondary priorities arise directly from the first two, some of which provide more explicit reasons why performance can't be emphasized.

• Portable ("ease of use")
• Small source code footprint ("easy to maintain")
• No dependencies ("ease of use")

I feel very aligned with this philosophy, hence the quote. I do however have a huge dependency on processing when it comes to the examples. But this goes back to the easy to use priority. This also means the libraries are centered around using floats instead of doubles and the order of color is assumed to be argb. Also it will be centered around using the latest version of processing with no backwards compatibility.

Most of the examples use processing as a dependency, which is included in this repository. At this time no other libraries are being used.

⚠ Not every example is suited for a screenshot!

SFJL_Blobscanner_Example_Heightmap

SFJL_Blobscanner_Example_Heightmap_Mask

SFJL_Douglas_Peucker_Example

SFJL_Intergral_Image_Example

SFJL_Octree_Example

SFJL_Quad_Tree_Example

SFJL_Terminal_IO_Example

SFJL_Tween_Example

Yes, How I write single-file java libraries

I can't find them, if you know any please let me know. I would love to list them.

I have a strong dislike towards build systems like maven and gradle. I used shell scripts before to make the jar files, but those are neither human friendly, and do not work on windows. I think it is a shortcoming of java to not provide an easy way to create jar files from java itself. Right now I use VSCode with the vscode-java-dependency extension, which has shortcomings as well (microsoft seems to be incompetent), but is so far the best option provided. Also in certain cases I think it is better to copy the libraries and include them as source files instead of compiled jar's.

Biased mentioning alert since I made this; java_preproc_macros a almost single file library to replicate C macros like __LINE__ with bytecode manipulation. I did not make this into a SFJL_Preproc_Macros cause it's a java agent, and therefor does not fall in the easy to use category.

Special thanks to Sean Barrett for being a huge inspiration for this project