I want to import existing Maven project into Eclipse. I found 2 ways to do it: Through running from command line mvn eclipse:eclipse To install Maven Eclipse plugin from Eclipse. What is the difference between the both and which one is preferable? If I install Maven Eclipse plugin through the Eclipse menu Help -> Install … Read more
When you build with maven on a multicore / multi-CPU machine it would often be possible to build different subprojects in parallel. Is there a way to do this with maven? Is there a plugin for this / whatever? 4 Answers 4
I have noticed that in a Maven artifact’s JAR, the project.version attribute is included in two files: META-INF/maven/${groupId}/${artifactId}/pom.properties META-INF/maven/${groupId}/${artifactId}/pom.xml Is there a recommended way to read this version at runtime? 12 Answers 12
I have a maven2 multi-module project and in each of my child modules I have JUnit tests that are named Test.java and Integration.java for unit tests and integration tests respectively. When I execute: mvn test all of the JUnit tests *Test.java within the child modules are executed. When I execute mvn test -Dtest=**/*Integration none of … 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
How can you depend on test code from another module in Maven? Example, I have 2 modules: Base Main I would like a test case in Main to extend a base test class in Base. Is this possible? Update: Found an acceptable answer, which involves creating a test jar. 4 Answers 4
I have 2 different project build on mvn. I am trying to replace to Gradle. Project 1 is an SDK, and project 2 is using that sdk (example). In the time of maven it creates artifact using mvn install which adds the whole project into local repository. I like to work in gradle like that. … Read more
I can install an artifact by install:install-file, but how can I download an artifact? For example: mvn download:download-file -DgroupId=.. -DartifactId=.. -Dversion=LATEST 13 Answers 13
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
dependency:tree can be used to see the dependency tree for a given project. But what I need is to see the dependency tree for a 3rd party artifact. I guess I can create an empty project, but I’m looking for something easier (I need to do this for several artifacts). 10 Answers 10