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This page refers to version 0.8.0 of the Snowplow Java Tracker.

Documentation for older version of this tracker is available:

• Java 0.7

• 1 Overview
• 2 Integration options
  • 2.1 Tracker compatibility
  • 2.2 Dependencies
• 3 Setup
  • 3.1 Hosting
  • 3.2 Maven
  • 3.3 Gradle
  • 3.4 SBT

The Snowplow Java Tracker lets you add analytics to your Java-based desktop and server apps, servlets and games.

The Tracker should be relatively straightforward to setup if you are familiar with Java development.

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The Snowplow Java Tracker has been built and tested using JDK7 (JRE 1.7), so should work within any Java application built using JDK7 upwards.

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To minimize jar bloat, we have tried to keep external dependencies to a minimum. For the full list of dependencies, please see our Gradle build file.

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The Tracker is published to Snowplow's hosted Maven repository, which should make it easy to add it as a dependency into your own Java app.

The current version of the Snowplow Java Tracker is 0.8.2.

You can also manually insert the Tracker by downloading the jar directly: snowplow-java-tracker-0.8.2.jar

If you are using Maven for building your Java application, then add the following code into your HOME/.m2/settings.xml to be able to use this repository:

<settings>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <!-- ... -->
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>com.snowplowanalytics</id>
          <name>SnowPlow Analytics</name>
          <url>http://maven.snplow.com/releases</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
</settings>

Then add into your project's pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.snowplowanalytics</groupId>
    <artifactId>snowplow-java-tracker</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.2</version>
</dependency>

If you are using Gradle in your own Java application, then add our Maven repository in your build.gradle file:

repositories {
    ...
    maven {
        url "http://maven.snplow.com/releases"
    }
}

Then add into the same file:

dependencies {
    ...
    // Snowplow Java Tracker
    compile 'com.snowplowanalytics:snowplow-java-tracker:0.8.2'
}

The Snowplow Java Tracker is also usable from Scala. Add this to your SBT config:

// Resolvers
val snowplowRepo = "SnowPlow Repo" at "http://maven.snplow.com/releases/"

// Dependency
val snowplowTracker = "com.snowplowanalytics"  % "snowplow-java-tracker"  % "0.8.2"

Done? Now read the Java Tracker API to start tracking events.