Maven

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. – http://maven.apache.org/

While playing with deployment to GitHub repositories, I figured out some interesting property of the method I presented in the previous episode: Deployments deletes all previously deployed files. While this may not be a problem with snapshot repositories, it certainly is for release repositories. But thanks to git tagging, there’s […]

Maven in Eclipse #15 – Release to GitHub

12 Aug, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / GitHub / m2e / Tools / Tricks by letsdeveloper

You asked me how you can use a GitHub repository as a Maven repository. I figured it out and here it is: Deploying Maven artifacts to a GitHub repository is not even that difficult! ► All Maven Episodes Share this:

Maven in Eclipse #14 – Deploy to GitHub

27 Jul, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / GitHub / m2e / Tools by letsdeveloper

Maven caches dependencies locally, to reduce load on repositories. If we reference a Snapshot repository and want dependencies to always resolve to the newest deployed version, we have to tell Maven to do so. ► All Maven Episodes Share this:

Maven in Eclipse #13 – Snapshot Repos

23 Jul, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / m2e / Tools by letsdeveloper

Now we’ve deployed/released our stuff to repositories. What remains to be done is referencing these repositories from another project, to resolve the dependencies from it. ► All Maven Episodes Share this:

Maven in Eclipse #12 – Reference Repos

17 Jul, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / m2e / Tools by letsdeveloper

Some of you guys reported that the Maven project wizards is broken for you and only creates part of the project scaffolding. Though I highly recommend fixing your setup (you know, where one thing’s broken, probably others are, too) you can easily live without the wizard. In this episode, I […]

Maven in Eclipse #01a – Setup w/o Wizard

3 Jul, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / m2e / Tools by letsdeveloper

Last time we prepared, this time we perform. Actually, this is the easy part. Hit it, wait for it, be amazed! ► All Maven Episodes Share this:

Maven in Eclipse #11 – Release Perform

20 Jun, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / m2e / Release / Tools by letsdeveloper

People say good and bad things about Maven’s release plugin. Fact is, it makes a releasing you project relatively easy, if you want releases to be all-green (tests), tagged in your version control, and deployed to some repository. I show you how you prepare your project for these steps, in […]

Maven in Eclipse #10 – Release Prepare

20 Jun, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / m2e / Release / Tools by letsdeveloper

If you want people (or yourself) to use your project as a dependency, you need to get it deployed in some maven repository. Therefore, you need to tell Maven where to deploy to, how to deploy there, and how to authenticate (if necessary). I walk you through these steps. ► […]

Maven in Eclipse #09 – Deployment

20 Jun, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Deployment / Eclipse / m2e / Tools by letsdeveloper

The easiest way to make Maven find one of our own projects in dependency resolution is to install that project’s artifact to the Local Repository. ► All Maven Episodes: http://goo.gl/3KK2gb ► Don’t Miss an Episode: http://goo.gl/whzDi1 Share this:

Maven in Eclipse (m2e) 08 – MVN Install

11 May, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / m2e / Tools by letsdeveloper