Starting with Maven 3.3.1 it is possible to define several important configuration elements within your project. For example JVM parameters or some kind of build extensions. Unfortunately using such things may result is wrong or failing builds cause those informations are not read by older Maven versions. How can you …

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It often happens having an application and you want to show a version information in a kind of About Dialog or may be on command line as well (probably you know --version stuff). So in relationship with Maven the question is: How to get this into your Java code. There are in general four ways to do it: Using the …

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If you are working over a longer time with Maven your pom´s become larger and in particular in projects it happens that everyone has it´s own belief of how a good pom style should look like. Packaging type before artifactId, groupId and version, modules before any other things or after all other things etc. Sounds …

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If you are a software developer (for example in Java) you might have heard about code smells which indicate not really bugs, but usually are a kind of indicator for problems in the future. It´s usually a good practice to fix such code smells. But sometimes if I take a deeper look into a Maven build I can observe things …

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Based on a comment on my previous article i would like to show how to add dependencies to the generated artifacts depending on the environment. The most important problem is: How to get the different artifacts? If you have artifacts which are stored in a Maven Repository like Maven Central it is easy to get them. Just …

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I have often heard that it is not possible to create a number of artifacts out of a single Maven module with different configurations. An example from the wild is to have a web-app (or whatever app) which should be running in development, test, q&a and production environment. So you need different configurations …

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