I’m very excited to announce that Mop 1.0 M1 has been released. Mop is one of those tools that you wish you have had years ago. Most of you probably have not heard of mop yet. Mop is:

… a small utility for executing Java programs which are stored as artifacts like jars or bundles in a Maven repository. MOP automatically deals with the following for you transitive dependencies downloading artifacts from remote repositories and caching them locally setting up your class path

It’s a wonderfully small download that weighs in at only 3.2 megs.  Why don’t you try it out today?