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java-development
Day-to-day plain Java development without a framework: Maven and Gradle usage and wrappers, project layout, dependency and vulnerability management, modern Java idioms by JDK version (records, sealed types, pattern matching, virtual threads), SLF4J logging, error and null handling, immutability, concurrency basics, static analysis and formatting (Spotless, Error Prone, -Xlint), packaging (jar, jlink, jpackage) and GitHub Actions CI. Use when writing, building, reviewing or maintaining ordinary Java code.Description from the SKILL.md front matter.
Information source
Copied from the Awesome Copilot skills (GitHub) catalog (github/awesome-copilot), maintained by GitHub + community contributors.
- SKILL.md:
skills/java-development/SKILL.md
Links are pinned to commit b1a0045 (2026-10-26), the version we synced. Not reviewed by us.
Install
GitHub CLI v2.90+ (Copilot by default)
gh skill install github/awesome-copilot java-developmentFor Claude Code
gh skill install github/awesome-copilot java-development --agent claude-codeFor Codex
gh skill install github/awesome-copilot java-development --agent codexCommands follow each host's documentation (GitHub Copilot, plus Claude Code, Codex, Cursor via gh skill docs). gh skill needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later and is in public preview.
Listed from GitHub + community contributors's catalog, not reviewed by us. Read the source before installing.
- Information source
- SKILL.md in github/awesome-copilot
- Author
- Not stated in the source
- Source code
- github/awesome-copilot
- License
- MIT (repository license)
- Repository stars
- 40,417 for github/awesome-copilot (the whole catalog repo)
- Added to catalog
- Not tracked for this source
- Last change
- 2026-10-26 (last push to the repo)
What it contains
- Skills: 1
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