How can I build other people's projects from github?
<p>I suspect this is not as hard as I'm making it but I'm having trouble understanding how to build other people's source into jar files I can use for my own projects.  </p>

<p>For example(please make the answer general so I can apply it to other sources), I'm looking at <a href="https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis</a> and the source seems newer than the provided jars(for which I noticed a few bugs), so I wanted to try to build it so its like the provided jars(this way I can test it in my project).  I know how to clone the repository but I don't feel like copying/pasting or import one file at a time into eclipse to export a jar.  </p>

<p>Is there something easy that I can go into a folder and run a command to get the jar(my understanding jar's are just zipped files)?</p>
