Maven Essentials电子书

Maven Essentials

Table of Contents

Maven Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewer

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Apache Maven Quick Start

Installing Apache Maven

Installing Apache Maven on Ubuntu

Installing Apache Maven on Mac OS X

Installing Apache Maven on Microsoft Windows

Configuring the heap size

Hello Maven!

Convention over configuration

Maven repositories

IDE integration

NetBeans integration

IntelliJ IDEA integration

Eclipse integration

Troubleshooting

Enabling Maven debug level logs

Building a dependency tree

Viewing all the environment variables and system properties

Viewing the effective POM file

Viewing the dependency classpath

Summary

2. Understanding the Project Object Model (POM)

Project Object Model (POM)

POM hierarchy

Super POM

POM extending and overriding

Maven coordinates

The parent POM

Managing POM dependencies

Transitive dependencies

Dependency scopes

Optional dependencies

Dependency exclusion

Summary

3. Maven Archetypes

Archetype quickstart

Batch mode

Archetype catalogues

Building an archetype catalogue

Public archetype catalogues

The anatomy of archetype – catalog.xml

The archetype plugin goals

Java EE web applications with the archetype plugin

Deploying web applications to a remote Apache Tomcat server

Android mobile applications with the archetype plugin

EJB archives with the archetype plugin

JIRA plugins with the archetype plugin

Spring MVC applications with the archetype plugin

Summary

4. Maven Plugins

Common Maven plugins

The clean plugin

The compiler plugin

The install plugin

The deploy plugin

The surefire plugin

The site plugin

The jar plugin

The source plugin

The resources plugin

The release plugin

Plugin discovery and execution

Plugin management

Plugin repositories

Plugin as an extension

Summary

5. Build Lifecycles

Standard lifecycles in Maven

The clean lifecycle

The default lifecycle

The site lifecycle

Lifecycle bindings

Lifecycle extensions

Summary

6. Maven Assemblies

The assembly plugin

The assembly descriptor

Artifact/resource filtering

Assembly help

A runnable standalone Maven project

Summary

7. Best Practices

Dependency management

Defining a parent module

POM properties

Avoiding repetitive groupIds and versions, and inheriting from the parent POM

Following naming conventions

Think twice before you write your own plugin. You may not need it!

The Maven release plugin

The Maven enforcer plugin

Avoiding the use of unversioned plugins

Descriptive parent POM files

Documentation is your friend

Avoid overriding the default directory structure

Using SNAPSHOT versioning during the development

Get rid of unused dependencies

Avoiding keeping credentials in application POM files

Avoiding using deprecated references

Avoiding repetition – use archetypes

Avoiding using maven.test.skip

Summary

Index