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The Maven Clean Plugin 1. Overview This quick tutorial describes the clean plugin, one of the core plugins of the Maven build tool. For an overview of the other core plugins, refer to this article. 2. Plugin Goal The clean lifecycle has only one phase named clean that is automatically bound… Continue Reading maven-clean-plugin
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Run an Ant Task with Maven 1. Introduction Maven and Ant are both well-known build automation tools for Java. Although most of the time we’ll only use one of these, there are cases when using the two together makes sense. A common use case is when working on a legacy project… Continue Reading maven-ant-task
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Spring with Maven Table of Contents . Overview . Basic Spring Dependencies with Maven . Spring Persistence with Maven . Spring MVC with Maven . Spring Security with Maven . Spring Test with Maven . Using Milestones . Using Snapshots . Conclusion 1. Overview This tutorial illustrates how to set… Continue Reading spring-with-maven
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Maven Project with Multiple Source Directories 1. Introduction We sometimes need to use multiple source directories in a Java project. A common case example when there are classes that are generated automatically and placed in a different directory. In this short article, we’ll show how to set up Maven to work… Continue Reading maven-project-multiple-src-directories
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The Maven Verifier Plugin 1. Overview This tutorial introduces the verifier plugin, one of the core plugins of the Maven build tool. For an overview of the other core plugins, refer to this overview article. 2. Plugin Goal The verifier plugin has only one goal – verify. This goal verifies… Continue Reading maven-verifier-plugin
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Multi-Module Maven Application with Java Modules 1. Overview The Java Platform Module System (JPMS) adds more reliability, better separation of concerns, and stronger encapsulation to Java applications. However, it’s not a build tool, hence it lacks the ability for automatically managing project dependencies. Of course, we may wonder whether if… Continue Reading maven-multi-module-project-java-jpms
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Install local jar with Maven Maven 1. The Problem and the options Maven is a very versatile tool and its available public repositories are second to none. However there will always be an artifact that is either not hosted anywhere, or the repository where it is hosted is risky to… Continue Reading install-local-jar-with-maven
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A Quick Guide to Maven Wrapper 1. Overview The Maven Wrapper is an excellent choice for projects that need a specific version of Maven (or for users that don’t want to install Maven at all). Instead of installing many versions of it in the operating system, we can just use… Continue Reading maven-wrapper
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How to Create an Executable JAR with Maven 1. Introduction In this quick article we’ll focus on packaging a Maven project into an executable Jar file. Usually, when creating a jar file, we want to execute it easily, without using the IDE; to that end, we’ll discuss the configuration and… Continue Reading executable-jar-with-maven
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Maven Polyglot 1. Overview Maven Polyglot is a set of Maven core extensions that allows the POM model to be written in any language. This includes many scripts and markup languages other than XML. The primary goal of Maven polyglot is to escape from XML as it’s no longer the… Continue Reading maven-polyglot
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