coursier Java API

coursier can be used from pure Java projects, but also from Scala projects, via its Java API.

The coursier Java API is currently handled from an external repository, although it might be moved to the main repository at some point.

It is published as io.get-coursier:interface, and aims at minimizing binary compatibility breakages - it basically never broke binary compatibility since its very first release (but for one borked release).

It only depends on slf4j-api. Most notably, it doesn't depend on the Scala standard library or any other Scala project. coursier being written in Scala, this is achieved by shading / proguarding all coursier dependencies. This results in a slightly heavy JAR, that embeds under the coursierapi.shaded most coursier dependencies. Note that users shouldn't tap directly into the APIs under coursierapi.shaded - these are considered private, and no compatibility guarantees apply to those.