Loom is a modern build tool for Java based projects. It focuses on simplicity, conventions, ease of use and performance. It uses a very simple, declarative configuration (YAML) and convention over configuration to reduce the configuration to a bare minimum.

Loom requires JDK 9 to build and run but it can build projects targeting Java 6-9 through JDKs cross-compile functionality.

Change to your project directory and enter:

curl -s https://loom.builders/installer.sh | sh

After installation succeeded, run your first build by entering:

./loom build

This builds sources beneath src/main/java/ without external dependencies.

For more info, visit the Loom website and the Loom documentation.