The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Ear Plugin, version 2.9 This plugin generates a 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: 1<plugin> …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 2.2 This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies. You should specify the version in your …

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The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the FindBugs Maven Plugin version 2.5.3 FindBugs uses static analysis to inspect Java bytecode for occurrences of bug patterns. To get this update, simply specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: 1<plugin> 2 <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> 3 …

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The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the Clirr Maven Plugin version 2.6.1 Clirr is an application, which allows you to compare binaries or sources for compatibility. The Clirr Maven Plugin allows you to use Clirr from Maven 2. This version of the plugin uses Clirr 0.6. To get this update, simply specify …

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The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 2.11 This plugin integrates checkstyle into the build. You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration: 1<plugin> 2 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> 3 …

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The mojo Team has released a new release of the Webstart Maven Plugin This new version permits you to generate some jnlp files acceptable with jdk >= 1.7u45, You can also now use a keystore from any url. To get this update, simply specify the version in your project`s plugin configuration: 1<plugin> 2 …

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The new release of the Appassembler Maven Plugin 1.6 contains a number of bug fixes, improvements and a new feature. The following bugs are fixed: MAPPASM-188 - Empty CLASSPATH_PREFIX adds current directory to classpath MAPPASM-204 - Support Solaris x86_64 - Commercial JSW only MAPPASM-208 - binFolder configuration is …

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The new release of the Apache Maven Enforcer Plugin - Extra Rules contains the following changes: Fixed bug: MOJO-1980 - Add assertion message when corrupt classfile is detected in enforceBytecodeVersion Improvement MOJO-1976 - Artifact exclusion list for enforceBytecodeVersion Here the link to the change log for this …

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The new release of the Apache Maven Release Plugin 2.4.2 contains three bug fixes: Fixed bugs: MRELEASE-766 - release:prepare stores settings.xml in a public directory MRELEASE-832 - When performing a release, username and password parameters are ignored. MRELEASE-846 - m2 release plugin exposes SCM password in …

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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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