Tag Archives: Maven

Maven archetypes are the project templates which can help us quickly create a maven starter project based on its type. It’s a great tool to bootstrap a maven project with least effort. There are wide options of archetypes available to us. Some of the popular archetypes include – maven-archetype-quickstart, maven-archetype-webapp, maven-archetype-archetype. To create a maven project with a specific archetype, ...

Introduction: Managing dependencies is a core feature of Maven. When defining a maven dependency, the scope attribute defines the visibility of that dependency on different maven lifecycle phases such as build, test and run. The dependency scopes limit the transitivity of dependencies in any project, thereby affecting the classpath. Also, there are six different available dependency scopes in Maven. In ...

I create a sample Groovy project for Maven, that mixes Spock tests and JUnit 5 tests in one project. In the next section I’ll describe how to set up such kind of Maven project. Enable Groovy in the Project First at all, you have to enable Groovy in your project. One possibility is to add the GMavenPlus Plugin to your ...

There are two maven plugins that you can use, in order to add your Java Applicatoin into Docker in an easy way. First plugin that you can use is docker-maven-plugin from Fabric8 https://dmp.fabric8.io/ Second is docker-maven-plugin from Spotify https://github.com/spotify/docker-maven-plugin Let me show you how to do it by using Fabric8 plugin. Update pom.xml Just add configuration like this into your ...

Make your (automatic) releasing to Maven Central from Travis (and not only) more reliable thanks to the explicit staging repository creation feature set implemented at the edge of 2018 and 2019. Background If you are only interested in getting information how to make your artifacts releasing more reliable from Travis, move forward to the another section. Automatic artifacts releasing (using ...

In my previous article, I described how to set up a private Maven repository in Amazon S3 and deploy there via Rultor. This is a great solution if you’re familiar with managing Amazon Web Services (AWS), S3, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). However, if you’re not comfortable administering an AWS account and all the related permissions, you may ...

Throughout the years I’ve seen many teams using maven in many different ways. Maven can be used for many ci/cd tasks instead of using extra pipeline code or it can be used to prepare the development environment before running some tests.Generally it is convenient tool, widely used among java teams and will continue so since there is a huge ecosystem ...

If you are building your Java project using Maven, maybe in Eclipse or from the command prompt by running mvn install and your build is failing with an error like “invalid target release: 1.7” or “invalid target release: 1.8” then you have come to the right place. In this article, I’ll show you the reason why this error occurs and how you can ...

Apache Maven is simple, yet quite powerful; with a few tricks here and there, you can greatly simplify and optimize your dev experience. Working on multiple, non-colocated modules Say you have two utility modules foo and bar from one master project A, and another project B which pulls in foo and bar. While working on B, you realize that you ...