Overview This is the first article in this series about Apache Maven 4. Currently Apache Maven 4 is in alpha state (alpha-13). You can already download it and of course use it (I recommend to test things to see, if something strange happens. If you find problems, please report them) but I would not recommend to use it …

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Sometimes you want to play around with those new fancy features of JDK21 (or even newer JDK's) like preview features and maybe some classes from the incubator. So how can you configure your Maven build to support such a play lesson? It's easier than you think. Let's start the configuration. My assumption is that you …

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You might be surprised that all of a sudden that some WARNINGs are being emitted by your Maven build (at the end; Starting with Maven 3.9.1 and 3.9.2) like the following: 1... 2[INFO] Finished at: 2023-06-24T20:14:18+02:00 3[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4[WARNING] …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M8. The release contains 18 fixes and enhancements. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming! You should specify the version in your …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Dependecy Plugin, version 3.5.0. The dependency plugin provides the capability to manipulate artifacts. It can copy and/or unpack artifacts from local or remote repositories to a specified location. …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 3.2.1. The Checkstyle Plugin generates a report regarding the code style used by the developers. For more information about Checkstyle, see https://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/. You should specify the version in your …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.20.0 A Maven plugin for the PMD toolkit, that produces a report on both code rule violations and detected copy and paste fragments, as well as being able to fail the build based on these metrics. You can download the …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Project Info Reports Plugin version 3.4.2 You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: 1<plugin> 2 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> 3 <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId> 4 …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven EAR Plugin, version 3.3.0 This plugin generates Java EE Enterprise Archive (EAR) file. It can also generate the deployment descriptor file (e.g. application.xml). You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: NOTE: …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Doxia Version 2.0.0-M4, Released Doxia is a content generation framework which aims to provide its users with powerful techniques for generating static and dynamic content: Doxia can be used in web-based publishing context to generate static …

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