A Bukkit plugin that allows bookshelves to be linked to adjacent blocks that contain an inventory. When a player right clicks on a bookshelf, if there is a block touching it that has an inventory then that blocks inventory will be opened to the player.
This allows players to create usable bookshelves which can seemingly store items just by placing, for instance, a chest behind a bookshelf.
This approach is simple and does not require the use of database to serialize objects stored in a bookshelf. Additionally, if usage of the plugin were to be discontinued on a server then the player's items are still safe in the chests the bookshelves are linked with. Since the plugin does not touch the stored items, they are future proof from loosing added meta data in future versions of Minecraft that might not be explicitly handled by a plugin that would need to serialize inventory data.
This plugin has a Maven 3 pom.xml and uses Maven to compile. Dependencies are therefore managed by Maven. You should be able to build it with Maven by running
mvn package
a jar will be generated in the target folder. For those unfa1milliar with Maven it is a build system, see http://maven.apache.org/ for more information.