The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.8.2

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.

Maven 3.8.2 …

Overview

If you are using Apache Maven I suppose you have configured several plugins within your pom file already. As an example we use the Maven Enforcer Plugin to prevent starting a given build with a Maven version which is less than 3.5.0 which looks like this:

 1<project>
 2  <build>
 3 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.8.1

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.

Maven 3.8.1 …

I'm very active on Stackoverflow and answering question on different topics but majority I do is about Apache Maven.

So how I'm going to answer a question? First of course I read the question (obviously). Most of the time I realize there is not enough information in the question to really understand the problem. Often …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Shared Component: Apache Maven Artifact Transfer Version 0.13.1

An API to install, deploy and resolving artifacts with Maven3

1<dependency>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-artifact-transfer …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven Wagon 3.4.2.

Apache Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Mavens artifact and repository handling code.

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

Release Notes - Maven Wagon - Version 3.4.2

• Bug: …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven JLink Plugin, version 3.0.0.

This is the first public release of this plugin. It is explicitly an alpha version which means you can give feedback how to use it or how to improve the plugin.

The JLink Plugin is intended to create a Modular Java …

In the previous part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part V we have seen how to define system properties to run Maven. In this part we will take a deeper look how we can define profile(s) for a Maven call to be used.

Let us take a look at a simple example taken from the previous part.

1 …

You might have already used the strategy pattern in relationship with Spring Boot where it is very convenient to use.

You simply define an interface for example (I use the prefixing I only in these examples for clarity):

1public interface IOneStrategy {
2  void executeTheThing();
3}

Define some implementations like …

In the previous part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part IV we have seen how to define goals to run Maven. In this part we will take a deeper look how we can define system properties for a Maven call to be used.

Let us take a look at a simple example taken from the previous part.

1 …