We have a need to be able to skip a submodule in certain environments. The module in question contains integration tests and takes half an hour to run. So we want to include it when building on the CI server, but when developers build locally (and tests get run), we want to skip that module. … Read more
Is there a Maven plugin that allows you to check if there are newer versions of dependencies available in the repository? Say, you are using dependency X with version 1.2. Now a new version of X is released with version 1.3. I’d like to know, based on the dependencies used in my project, which dependencies … Read more
Is it possible to point to a specific settings file in order to override the default settings.xml being used by maven for a single command? Example: mvn clean install -Dparam # -> pass specific settings file path as param to override default “home/.m2/settings.xml” 2 Answers 2
In Maven, what does the project.build.directory refer to? I am a bit confused, does it reference the source code directory or the target directory in the Maven project? 4 Answers 4
Is there a specific recommended approach to the inclusion of the spring-boot parent pom into projects that already have a required parent POM? What do you recommend for projects that need to extend from an organizational parent (this is extremely common and even something many/most projects published to Maven central depending on the feeder repos … Read more
I have config files and various documents that I want to copy from the dev environment to the dev-server directory using Maven2. Strangely, Maven does not seem strong at this task. Some of the options: Simple use a copy task in Maven <copy file=”src/main/resources/config.properties” tofile=”${project.server.config}/config.properties”/> Use the Ant plugin to execute copy from Ant. Construct … Read more
In our company in the CI machines maven local repository is purged before every build. As result my build logs always have a bunch of noise like this Downloading: http://…/artifactory/repo/com/codahale/metrics/metrics-core/3.0.1/metrics-core-3.0.1.jar 4/2122 KB 8/2122 KB 12/2122 KB 16/2122 KB 18/2122 KB 18/2122 KB 4/480 KB 18/2122 KB 8/480 KB 18/2122 KB 12/480 KB 18/2122 KB 16/480 … Read more
Looking at documentation http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/testng.html, we can see <scope> tag under <dependency> What is that and how can we use it for running test? 6 Answers 6
Recently, Apache Maven seems to be having caching issues. Performing clean installs on our projects using Windows Vista or Windows 7 sometimes produce artifacts with the same data as a previous build even though the newer artifact’s files should have been updated. Is there any way to clear this cache to force maven to always … Read more
Supposing my maven project is located in /some/location/project and my current location is /another/location/ how can I run maven build without changing to project location cd /some/location/project? 4 Answers 4
