Migrate RelEx to maven

[vsbogd]

See second part of the #100 (comment).

Maven can manage most of dependencies automatically so it will simplify build procedure.
It has a plugin to automate ready to run environment createion (see #266)

[noskill]

Anything else to do here?

[vsbogd]

It is needed to create maven artifacts to replace manually written scripts like opencog-server.sh and relation-extractor.sh. In fact all of *.sh scripts in the root project folder.

[linas]

Well, the *.sh scripts were meant to be "examples", that the user could modify to suit their purposes. So whatever they are replaced with, they should also be "examples", and be labeled as such, and should somehow be easy and obvious to understand.

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[vsbogd]

Actually I thought about it again and looks like the simplest way is to collect all of the dependencies in one folder using maven and then use them as classpath in existing scripts. Then scripts themselves will not be changed, only classpath will be.

I have raised #276 to collect dependencies. And I see the following further steps:

• fix classpath in *.sh scripts to use ./target/lib/*.jar files collected by maven; I already committed it see vsbogd@57930c0 but this work cannot be merged without next steps.
• edit docker/Dockerfile to use maven to build relex within docker image
• update README.md
• remove ant scripts

[linas]

Is the work here finished? Can this be closed?

[vsbogd]

Yes, thanks