In the previous tutorial, I introduced you to Quarkus, a Supersonic Subatomic Java framework that allows us to build cloud-native Java applications. I showed you how to create a new Quarkus project using the website https://code.quarkus.io/. Besides using this site, we can also create a Quarkus project in three other ways:

• Quarkus Maven plugin
• Quarkus CLI
• and Quarkus RESTful APIs

How exactly? Let’s find out in this tutorial!

Quarkus Maven plugin

The Quarkus Maven Plugin defines a goal called create, allowing us to generate a Quarkus project! You can use the Maven command as follows:

• <group_id> and <artifact_id> are the Group ID and Artifact ID of the project you want to create.
• <list_extensions> is a list of extensions you want to use. You can find a complete list of Quarkus extensions here: https://quarkus.io/extensions/.

For example, if I want to generate a Quarkus project with the RESTEasy Classic extension at https://quarkus.io/extensions/io.quarkus/quarkus-resteasy/, I can run the following command:

Result:

Open the generated project, and you’ll see the same result as the project I created in the previous tutorial!

Quarkus CLI

Quarkus provides a CLI tool at https://quarkus.io/guides/cli-tooling. This tool allows you to create new Quarkus projects; add, delete, view the list of extensions; build a Quarkus project, etc.

You need to install this tool first, for example, using SDKMAN as follows:

Result:

Now you can use the following Quarkus CLI command to create a new Quarkus project:

For example:

Result:

Open the generated project, and you will see the same result.

Quarkus RESTful APIs

Quarkus also provides the Swagger UI at https://code.quarkus.io/q/swagger-ui/ with the base URL being https://code.quarkus.io/api. You can use the /api/download API to generate a Quarkus project. For example:

Result:

Unzip the generated file and open the project; you will see the same results as when using other project creation methods.