Tag Archives: Apache Maven

Defining a maven plugin on a submodule in a multi-module maven project can give us a ‘No plugin found’ error. Especially if we have a multi-module project and we want to apply a maven plugin in only one specific module this error occur pretty often. Let’s say we have a multi-module root pom which looks like this.       ...

Part #1, Part #2, Part #3, Part #4, Part #5, Part #6, Part #7  Part #8 It’s been a long time since my last post, for this series of  tutorials. Its time to resume and add new features on our simple project. As I have mentioned in previous posts, this series of posts is targeting mostly Maven and JavaEE7 newcomers, ...

Maven Central serves as the central repository manager where binary artifacts are uploaded by different teams/companies/individuals and shared with rest of the world. Much like github, and other source code repositories, which are very effective for source code control, these repository managers also act as a deployment destination for your own generated binary artifacts. Setting up a local repository manager has several ...

Maven Tip: All about executable jars An executable jar is an extremely useful artefact when it comes to distributing your code.  It means that, as long as Java is installed on the client machine, on Windows and Mac at least, your users can just double click the jar and program will launch. Alternatively on the command line the program can ...

Why Unit Tests Should Run Separately From Integration Tests TDD at the Unit Testing level is fairly straight-forward, since classes in unit testing either do not have complex dependencies, or you mock-out the dependencies with a mocking framework (ex. Mockito). However, TDD quickly becomes difficult when we get to Integration Testing. Integration Testing is basically testing a component with some or all ...

My local development feedback loop between code change and runnable container was annoyingly long on a Maven-based project I was recently working on. I wanted to speed things up. The scenario was something like this:             touch/change some source code docker build maven downloads the world maven compiles my project docker run touch/change some source ...

Spring Boot allows getting started with Spring extremely easy. But there are still people interested in not using Spring Boot and bootstrap the application in a more classical way. Several years ago, I created an archetype (long before Spring Boot) that simplifies bootstrapping Spring web applications. Although Spring Boot is already some time on the market, Spring MVC 4 Quickstart ...

Everybody seems to do Docker these days. And the whole topic gets even more attraction with Microsoft committed to integrate it into Windows. As many middleware developers are running Windows, I thought I give it a try myself and also give some more tips along the way about how to build and run images with the least possible amount of ...

According to a recent survey by ZeroTurnaround’s RebelLabs, Maven is still the leading Java build platform. The current market share distribution, according to RebelLabs is:                 Maven with 64% Ant + Ivy with 16.5% Gradle with 11% Yet, at the same time, Maven is often criticised for being a bit obscure and intrusive. ...