Doc Review Java Library Dependencies to Java Web Project Examples

docs/modules/ROOT/pages/cli/installation-ide.adoc

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ globally.
 [#_bootstrap_scripts]
 == Bootstrap Scripts
 
-Although the Mill example projects come with their own `./mill` and `./mill.bat` bootstrap script,
-you can also download it manually:
+The Mill example projects in this documentation come with `./mill` and `./mill.bat`
+bootstrap script, included. You can also download the boostrap script manually:
 
 [source,bash,subs="verbatim,attributes"]
 ----
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pick one most similar to what you are doing so you can hit the ground running wo
 
 The default Mill executable configured above requires a JVM (11 or above) installed globally in
 order to run, and imposes some Java startup overhead (100-200ms) when running Mill from the
-command line.You can also use Mill's native executables by appending a `-native` suffix to the
+command line. You can also use Mill's native executables by appending a `-native` suffix to the
 Mill version:
 
 [source,bash,subs="verbatim,attributes"]
@@ -67,27 +67,41 @@ echo {mill-last-tag}-native > .mill-version
 ----
 
 Using the `-native` suffix should provide a faster CLI experience than using Mill's default
-JVM launcher. Mill native executables are supported on the following OS/CPU combinations:
+JVM launcher, and makes it easier to install Mill in environments without a JVM pre-installed.
 
-- `windows-amd64` (Intel Windows)
-- `linux-amd64` (Intel Linux)
-- `mac-aarch64` (M1-M4 Mac)
 
-If you are on a combination not supported by Mill's native executables, use the default
+Mill native executables are supported on the following OS/CPU combinations:
+
+|===
+| | Windows | Mac | Linux
+| Intel | Y | Y | Y
+| ARM |  | Y | Y
+|===
+
+Notably, Mill native executables _do not_ support Windows-ARM, due to limitations in the
+upstream Graal Native Image tooling (see https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/9215[oracle/graal#9215]).
+If you are on a platform not supported by Mill's native executables, use the default
 JVM launcher instead.
 
 === Customizing Mill's JVM
 
-To use Mill in environments without a JVM installed, the native launcher can download its
-own JVM as necessary. You need to specify the version you want via a  `.mill-jvm-version`
-file such as:
+Mill allows you to specify the exact JVM version you want to use to run the build tool
+via a  `.mill-jvm-version` file such as:
 
 ```bash
 echo temurin:17.0.6 > .mill-jvm-version
 ```
 
-`.mill-jvm-version` can also be used with Mill's default JVM launcher, if you want
-your Mill process to use a different JVM than what you have installed globally.
+This has two benefits
+
+* `.mill-jvm-version` can also be used with Mill's default JVM launcher if you want
+your Mill process to use a different JVM than what you have installed globally. This
+can help ensure your project uses a consistent JVM version and behaves identically regardless
+of what the developer may have installed on their laptop or dev environment
+
+* `.mill-jvm-version` can be used together with <<Mill Native Executable>>s to build your
+project without needing a JVM pre-installed at all. This simplifies project setup and
+onboarding of new developers.
 
 
 == IDE Support
@@ -97,12 +111,7 @@ your Mill process to use a different JVM than what you have installed globally.
 Mill supports IntelliJ and VSCode and in general any client of the standard
 https://build-server-protocol.github.io/[Build Server Protocol (BSP)].
 
-To prepare your project for IDEs, and in general any BSP client, you can run this command to generate the BSP configuration files:
 
-[source,bash]
-----
-./mill mill.bsp.BSP/install
-----
 
 Your IDEs may already auto-detect the Mill project and run this command on behalf of you, when opening/importing the project.
 
@@ -111,7 +120,7 @@ Your IDEs may already auto-detect the Mill project and run this command on behal
 To use Mill with IntelliJ, first ensure you have the free
 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1347-scala[IntelliJ Scala Plugin]
 installed. This is necessary as Mill build files are written in Scala,
-even if you are using it to build a Java or Kotlin project.
+even if you are using it to build a Java or Kotlin or Python project.
 
 Once you have the plugin installed, you can use IntelliJ to open any project
 containing a Mill `build.mill` file, and IntelliJ will automatically load the
@@ -139,6 +148,14 @@ those updates by opening the "BSP" tab and clicking the "Refresh" button
 
 image::basic/IntellijRefresh.png[]
 
+To prepare your project for IDEs, and in general any BSP client, you can also
+run this command to generate the BSP configuration files:
+
+[source,bash]
+----
+./mill mill.bsp.BSP/install
+----
+
 ==== IntelliJ IDEA XML Support
 
 Apart from using the Build Server Protocol, you can also generate IDEA project
@@ -235,7 +252,7 @@ MILL_VERSION=0.5.0-3-4faefb ./mill __.compile
 to override the Mill version manually. This takes precedence over the version
 specified in `./mill`, `.config/mill-version` or `.mill-version`
 
-== Working without access to Maven Central
+== Using Mill without access to Maven Central
 
 Under some circumstances (e.g. corporate firewalls), you may not have access maven central.
 The typical symptom will be error messages which look like this;
@@ -251,19 +268,21 @@ Resolution failed for 1 modules:
 ----
 
 It is expected that basic commands (e.g. clean) will not work, as Mill saying it is
-unable to resolve it's own, fundamental, dependencies. Under such circumstances, you
+unable to resolve it's own, fundamental, dependencies from the default Maven Central
+JVM package repository. Under such circumstances, you
 will normally have access to some proxy, or other corporate repository which resolves
 maven artifacts. The strategy is simply to tell mill to use that instead.
 
-The idea is to set an environment variable COURSIER_REPOSITORIES (see coursier docs).
+To resolve this, you can set an environment variable COURSIER_REPOSITORIES (see coursier docs)
+to point at your own server that mirrors the Maven Central artifacts.
 The below command should pass the environment variable to the `mill` command.
 
 ----
- COURSIER_REPOSITORIES=https://packages.corp.com/artifactory/maven/ mill resolve _
+COURSIER_REPOSITORIES=https://packages.corp.com/artifactory/maven/ mill resolve _
 ----
 
 If you are using bootstrap script, a more permanent solution could be to set the environment variable
-at the top of the bootstrap script, or as a user environment variable etc.
+at the top of the bootstrap script, or as a user environment variable.
 
 
 

docs/modules/ROOT/pages/comparisons/why-mill.adoc

@@ -215,13 +215,12 @@ the Gradle build in an IDE, the IDE can only explore the configuration logic (th
 `getCompilerArgs` method above) and is unable to explore the actual build logic (how
 `getCompilerArgs` _actually gets used in Gradle_)
 
-In comparison, Mill's `.mill` files are all statically typed, and as a result IntelliJ is easily able to
-pull up the documentation for `def javacOptions`, even though it doesn't have any special support
-for Mill built into the IDE:
+In comparison, not only are Mill's `.mill` files statically typed, allowing IDEs like IntelliJ
+to pull up the documentation for `def javacOptions`:
 
 image::comparisons/IntellijMockitoMillJavacOptionsDocs.png[]
 
-Apart from static typing, the way Mill builds are structured also helps the IDE: Mill
+The way Mill builds are structured also helps the IDE: Mill
 code _actually performs your build_, rather than configuring some opaque build engine.
 While that sounds academic, one concrete consequence is that IntelliJ is able to take
 your `def javacOptions` override and
@@ -364,7 +363,7 @@ Line Count: 18
 Next, we'll look at a more realistic example,
 which includes usage of third-party libraries in the build.
 
-### Using Libraries from Maven Central in Tasks
+### Using Third-Party JVM Libraries in Tasks
 
 Earlier on we discussed possibly pre-rendering HTML pages in the build so they can be
 served at runtime. The use case for this are obvious: if a page never changes, rendering
@@ -386,9 +385,14 @@ import $ivy.`org.thymeleaf:thymeleaf:3.1.1.RELEASE`
 import org.thymeleaf.TemplateEngine
 import org.thymeleaf.context.Context
 object foo extends JavaModule {
+  /** Total number of lines in module source files */
+  def lineCount = Task {
+    allSourceFiles().map(f => os.read.lines(f.path).size).sum
+  }
+
   def htmlSnippet = Task {
     val context = new Context()
-    context.setVariable("heading", "hello")
+    context.setVariable("heading", "Line Count is: " + lineCount())
     new TemplateEngine().process(
         "<h1 th:text=\"${heading}\"></h1>",
         context
@@ -411,14 +415,14 @@ is inspectable from the Mill command line via `show`, and we wire it up into
 
 ```bash
 > mill show foo.htmlSnippet
-"<h1>hello</h1>"
+"<h1>Line count is: 17</h1>"
 
 > mill foo.compile
 compiling 1 Java source...
 ...
 
 > mill foo.run
-generated snippet.txt resource: <h1>hello</h1>
+generated snippet.txt resource: <h1>Line count is: 17</h1>
 ```
 
 Rendering HTML using the Thymeleaf templating engine is not rocket science, but what is
@@ -434,9 +438,9 @@ interesting here is what we did _not_ need to do:
   implement the functionality we need.
 
 
-Instead, we could simply import Thymeleaf directly from Maven Central and use it just
-like we would use it in any Java application, with IDE support, typechecking,
-and automatic parallelism and caching.
+Instead, we could simply import Thymeleaf as a Java library directly from Maven Central
+and use it just like we would use it in any Java application, with IDE support,
+typechecking, and automatic parallelism and caching.
 
 '''
 

example/cli/builtins/1-builtin-commands/build.mill

@@ -404,3 +404,26 @@ kotlinlib/web/1-hello-ktor
 // project isn't going to be everything that you need, at least it'll get most of the
 // tedious boilerplate set up, so you can hit the group running working on the things
 // that are unique to your particular project..
+//
+// `init` can also be used to initialize a Mill build configuration based on
+// an existing Maven or Gradle build. See the linked page for more details:
+//
+// * xref:migrating/maven.adoc[]
+// * xref:migrating/gradle.adoc[]
+//
+// == selective.*
+//
+// Mill comes with builtin `selective.*` commands to work with Selective Test Execution.
+// See the linked page for more details:
+//
+// * xref:large/selective-execution.adoc[]
+//
+// == shutdown
+//
+// `./mill shutdown` is used to shut down the background daemon that Mill uses to keep
+// the build code performant. Without calling `shutdown`, the background daemon will
+// automatically shut itself down after 30 minutes of inactivity.
+
+// == version
+//
+// `./mill version` prints the current Mill version