If you are using Apache Maven you might have faced with issues like this:

 1[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-shade-plugin:2.1:shade (default) on project cores-batch: Error creating shaded jar: invalid LOC header (bad signature) -> [Help 1]
 2...
 3.... (remove many lines for brevity).
 4 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.5.2

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Contributors

The Apache Maven team would like to thank the following contributors, without whom this release would not have been possible:

Code contributors:

• Mario …

The Apache Maven team would like to announce the release of Apache Maven 3.5.0.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page.

Notable changes

• ANSI colors added to the console output
• Fix various bugs in mvn scripts regarding spaces, quotations, special characters, etc. also in combination with …

In the ancient time before maven 3 the version of an artifact had to follow the pattern:

1<majorversion [> . <minorversion [> . <incrementalversion ] ] [> - <buildnumber | qualifier ]>

so far so good. Now let us assume we have the following two versions:

• 1.0.9.3.1
• 1.0.10.11

What would you …

If you are working with a Maven Multi Module Build on command line it could happen that you might think: Wouldn't it be nice to build only the modules which you have changed and not all modules in the reactor.

You can of course control what you build by using the --projects command line option and add the appropriate …

You are working on your project and now the time has come where you would like to create a release of your project. So how to do this with Maven?

There are existing in general several solutions to achieve the goal. Those different solutions will be described in this article.

Maven Release Plugin

The most obvious one …

In Maven builds I often see a pattern like the following:

 1<plugins>
 2  <plugin>
 3    <groupId>group</groupId>
 4    <artifactId>generatorPlugin</artifactId>
 5    <version>..</version>
 6    <configuration>
 7     ...
 8    </configuration>
 9 …

Do you know how many downloads are done from Maven Central during a month? I was not aware of that as well. As a PMC member of the Apache Maven Project I have the privilege of having access to the statistics of Maven Central.

So I checked the statistics of Maven Central. I can tell you that in the groupId …

As i described in my previous articles (Multiple Environments I and Multiple Environments II) there are situations where you need to create separate artifacts for different environments.

But the problem is that by using the suggested solutions is that it can be made better.

Thats the reason why I'm writing this blog …