AWS SDK for Java using Apache Maven

Please perform the following steps to include AWS SDK for Java using Apache Maven:

1. Assuming that you have already installed Maven in your machine, create a new folder AWS SDK Example or any different name. Go to this folder and execute the following command to set up the environment:

mvn archetype:generate -DartifactId=swfexample -DgroupId=com.packt -DinteractiveMode=false

2. To use AWS SDK for Java in your project, you need to add the dependency into the pom.xml file. For swf, it uses the aws-java-sdk-simpleworkflow module. Add the following code in the<dependencies> tag in your pom.xml file:

<dependency>
<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
<artifactId>aws-java-sdk-simpleworkflow</artifactId>
<version>1.11.78</version>
</dependency>

Make sure that JDK 1.7+ versions can be supported by Maven. Add the following code into your pom.xml file before or after your <dependencies> block:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
      <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.1</version>
      <configuration>
          <source>1.7</source>
          <target>1.7</target>
      </configuration>                     
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>