vertx is a command line utility tool that call the launcher class
This page is about the vertx client, for a vertx as an object instance, see the Vertx instance page
You get it with the full distribution
vertx --help
Usage: vertx [COMMAND] [OPTIONS] [arg...]
Commands:
bare Creates a bare instance of vert.x.
list List vert.x applications
resolve Resolve the vert.x stack according to the content the stack
description.
run Runs a verticle called <main-verticle> in its own instance of
vert.x.
start Start a vert.x application in background
stop Stop a vert.x application
test Runs a Vert.x Unit test called <test-verticle> in its own instance
of vert.x.
version Displays the version.
Run 'vertx COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.
where:
As the vertx command is a wrapper around the launcher class, see the page Vert.x - Launcher class for its commands
The vertx.bat file looks like that
"%JAVA_EXE%" ^
%JVM_OPTS% ^
%JMX_OPTS% ^
%JAVA_OPTS% ^
%VERTX_SYNC_AGENT% ^
%VERTX_OPTS% ^
%VERTX_MODULE_OPTS% ^
-Dvertx.cli.usage.prefix=vertx ^
-Djava.util.logging.config.file="%VERTX_JUL_CONFIG%" ^
-Dvertx.home="%VERTX_HOME%" ^
-Dvertx.clusterManagerFactory="%VERTX_CLUSTERMANAGERFACTORY%" ^
-classpath "%CLASSPATH%" ^
io.vertx.core.Launcher ^
%CMD_LINE_ARGS%