Use JBang for index file generation

Context and Problem Statement

Due to speed reasons, JabRef generates index files during build time. For instance, .mv files for journal list abbreviations and a .json file for an index on properties of CSL files.

These indexes need to be generated. Thereby, existing, up-to-date code, from JabRef should be used

Decision Drivers

• High maintainability
• Low effort for implementing

Considered Options

• JBang
• Gradle-based project

Decision Outcome

Chosen option: “JBang”, because

• All “scripts” have a total length of 300 lines of code
• JBang is a well-enough supported tool
• Using gradle would lead to introduce another “jablib” project: “jablib-journals-csl”, which depends on the jablib. This is much effort to implement and get project dependencies right.