Questions tagged [maven]
Maven is a plug-in based software project management tool which core features are automation of your software build, dependency management, and generating of reports and documentation.
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Handling OpenAPI Generated code in a Project's repository
In my company, we are would like to recommend OpenAPI and using the design first approach to API development. We would also like to use the OpenAPI Generator to generated server stubs and DTOs from ...
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How to use versions-maven-plugin with shared contracts?
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We have Java maven Multi Microservices Project.
The structure for each microservice is a contracts package and a service package.
When we update a version of a specific microservice the ...
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Gradle/Maven project splitting: interfaces and implementation
Assume we have a single large JVM project (the example is in Kotlin), containing code. As part of a refactoring effort, we are decoupling pieces of the code by splitting the code into multiple modules,...
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Extract common code into own module
I'm finding myself in a situation where I need to define common behaviour and implement it depending on the environment (minecraft server or javafx runtime). The simple graph below describes my idea.
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Standard Maven approach for large, non-Java dependencies needed for build?
I'm interested in modernizing an existing codebase for a commercial software package written in Java, in part by moving it to Maven. The primary motivator here is to shrink our git repo, which is ...
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Should test resource files be stored inside the Java class source directories?
In a TDD (Test-Driven Development)-based Java project built by maven, lots of classes needs to be tested with text-based input files such as .csv. At the beginning, I put them into the src/test/...
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What is the better way to save swagger code gen plugin generated model classes in spring boot maven application?
I am working on a spring boot maven project in Eclipse IDE. And here is my pom.xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/...
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May I and should I include my dependencies in the jar i publish online?
I'm developing a java project that I'd eventually like to publish and make open source.
To make a executable jar file I use the maven-assembly-plugin. This includes my dependencies in the jar, which ...
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Maven dependencies with versions [0.0.0,999.999.999)
I have this situation where we have a couple of maven repositories. Some are frontend..ish (JSP, Spring Controllers etc.) meant to be deployed as war files and others are for the hibernate mappings ...
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How to setup $JAVA_HOME, because Maven is 1.6, and you are using Java 1.7 or higher?
I have a configuration problem, from this code,
https://github.com/plum-umd/java-sketch.
Here, I must set $JAVA_HOME, because:
"One possible issue you may encounter while
building sketch-frontend ...
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Validating provenance of release binaries of github projects obtained from Maven repository
If I obtain a release build of a github project from a Maven repository, how can I securely verify that it's the authentic build?
DETAILS
That was my X question. My Y question follows.
Maven's ...
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What is difference between 'mvn install" and "mvn clean install" in maven?
I know that "mvn clean install" cleans everything that has already been built by maven and rebuilds everything as specified by pom.xml. However, if things have already been installed, and I just run "...
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Where Should You Add a Shared Maven Module as a Dependency in an N-tier Architecture
In a simple web architecture using Spring and Maven where it consists of following layers:
Controller
Service
Repository
Shared
Where in shared module all the classes that are used among different ...
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Maven: Versioning for multi module repository
Versioning is always a big question and I see many similar questions here, however none really answer my question so I try to highlight the things that are important to me specifically.
We have a ...
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Dealing with other dependencies in your own Maven dependency
Maybe this question is a duplicate. However, I could not find a suitable article in my research. If you know an informative, comprehensive article about this topic, please send it to me.
I want to ...
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Java package naming conventions (in maven modular project)
Until now I have been using simple strategy for packages naming in my maven-modular projects. Each package name contains name of the module in which it is placed.
For example, simple project would ...
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How to maintain and configure properties files for different environments in Java maven project?
A Java project with maven as build tool needs to be deployed to different environments, such as ci, dev, test, prod etc. Each environment has a properties file with the same set of properties such as:
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Spring Boot REST Java Microservice: Why Use Maven Submodules?
I have seen a project which uses Maven submodules. The project itself is a spring boot application that exposes Restful API endpoints for a microservice ex: Customer Service (getCustomers, ...
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How can I create a spring-boot application which can be easily extended with plugins?
I am planning a spring boot application that can be extended with plugins. However, I haven't found out yet whether spring boot meets my requirements in this regard.
I imagine the following folder ...
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Why is it considered bad that Guava introduced direct, internal dependencies?
For a few months, there's a heated discussion ongoing in Guava's issues (#3302, #3320) about having introduced several internal dependencies, namely "failureaccess" and "listenablefuture".
Some of ...
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Common methods for swapping out a library
I am trying to come up with a solution to replace joda-time with java 8 time in our product. The code-base encompasses many projects of which some import joda-time directly and some transitively. To ...
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How to have parent and child modules in Maven that both package as jar files?
I have an unresolvable dependency issue in a Maven project; different pieces of code depend on different versions of dependency A (i.e. most code needs A:0.15; some needs A:0.18). Fortunately, the ...
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Multi module Maven project or separate repositories?
Consider the following architecture:
Application A
Application B
Commons-Util
A and B share a lot of functionality. That's why we plan to extract the shared code into a commons library.
I am aware ...
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Versioning depending on Third parties
I have a question about versioning when I depend on a third party (TP) project's versioning. Our current process is to release a new version every time TP creates a release with security fixes. The ...
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Where do you put tests that are not unit tests in a Maven project?
I'm building a Spark-based, text analysis package using both Java and Scala. I have a series of transform functions, which take in one dataframe and spit out another, and that can be chained together ...
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Gitlab-ci and Maven: how to deal with project version?
How exactly should gitlab-ci behave to version my project ?
A simple git flow on gitlab could be:
commit on master -> build, test and deploy to staging
tag on master -> build, test and deploy to ...
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Should I postfix application.yml?
My project structure (Spring / maven):
src / main / resources / application.yml
src / test / resources / application.yml
This is working well (when I launch test, it takes the test application.yml).
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Periodically update files from s3 in a Java maven library used as Packaged JAR
I have an application say x which uses another Java library(say Y) as a JAR file . So y basically needs to download a file and load it into memory before any of it's methods are called at runtime by X....
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Working with maven and multiple git repositories
We recently migrated from SVN, with most code in a single repo, to git, with most projects in their own repos (about 70 of them).
We build about a dozen different apps from this java source. The apps ...
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Private/Hiding dependencies between Maven modules
Given three project modules X, Y and Z on a Maven based project, and Y depends of Z and X of Y and X should not know that Y depends of Z, being this:
X -> Y
Y -> Z
X -X> Z
What is the best way to ...
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Microservice Architecture: Localizing core logic in a separate code base
I stepped away from a project for a few weeks. Before leaving the organization was discussing an architectural pattern for our microservices. An instance typically serves two roles in our organization....
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How, in eclipse do I work with an existing maven project in GitHub without ending up checking my .project file?
I have a maven project in GitHub that I wish to work with using eclipse.
I want to keep the GitHub repository clear of any eclipse project artifacts such as the .project file.
Is there a way to do ...
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Maven plugin to operate at parent and child module levels?
I have a large multi-module java/maven application where each child module is it's own java application and the root parent pom defines the standard dependencies
pom.xml - parent pom
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Maven project dependency management process
I'm writing what I might refer to as a Maven project dependency management process for a project I work on. Whenever a developer wants or needs to change the version number of an existing Maven ...
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Upload MIT-licensed code to maven repository [closed]
I found some java source code under MIT license on Github, but it is not included in any maven repository. I asked in issue to publish it somewhere, but nobody answered and looks like this repo is not ...
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Java/Maven and Scala/sbt projects share immutable thing
Project 1: a Java/Maven project
Project 2: a Scala/sbt project
Thing: generally, an immutable object instantiated in from 3rd party Java library. For example, ThingBuilder.foo("bar").build()
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Deploy a NodeJs (FrontEnd) and a Spring (BackEnd) project as one artefact
I have a current project which consist out of two independently developed projects:
Spring REST as back end
Angular as front end
I do have a Jenkins instance available for building my projects and I'...
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How to depend on forked external dependencies?
Our project uses Gradle (whose dependency system is compatible with Maven IIUC). When depending on external projects, we try to depend on stable versions. Sometimes we have to depend on a ...
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Team collaboration with Maven - Java EE
For team of 6,
We have spring MVC project being developed with Angular as Frontend and Spring framework as back end.
From Java project build & version control aspect,
Is it recommended, to not ...
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What is a good versioning strategy to achieve 'fail fast' with chains of dependent maven submodules?
My organisation modularised their monolith into maven modules in dependencies up to four deep. Originally we used the maven plugin to auto-increment the version numbers in the pom every time someone ...
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How to handle passing a DAO object with custom exceptions in java?
I have my multi module maven project with the following structure:
+ parent
- pom.xml
+ model
- persistents
- dao
- model stuff...
- pom.xml
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- services
- services ...
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Staging of artifacts in the build server?
Java artifacts are often staged through different "quality levels", named like alpha, beta, releaseCandidate, release etc. They enter the next stage if they have passed tests (automatic or manual ones)...
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How to test web service
I want to test my web service/web method not by using SOAP but with Junit or other framework. The first solution that I have founded is to create stub of my project and use a client to call this ...
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What is the name of the interface-implementation pattern applied to modularisation?
At work we have a project where we're pushing pieces of the monolith into modules. (A java project making smaller maven modules that we pull in via maven dependencies). The pattern we're using pushes ...
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Continuous integration - jar as part of an ear
In our company, we have large ear files to which developer groups contribute jars. This is a many-to-many relation, where each ear has 30-50 jars and some of the jars are within 10 or more ear files.
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Choosing between adding a maven dependency vs. copying the one class I need
My project can benefit from a bit of code from the Apache commons-math3 project. Specifically, my math heavy application would benefit from using the FastMath class which avoids using extremely ...
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Can integration tests be run asynchronously with Maven?
Because I work at a company with lots and lots of computers, I find it to be a little ironic that it takes half an hour to cut a release of the latest version of our software.
The bottleneck seems ...
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How can I holistically manage a multi module multi repository application
I am writing an application that I've split into multiple jars including re-usable infrastructure libraries, each has their own versions (BOM managed) and git repositories. I'm doing this for a number ...
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How to share new features in a large multi module project [duplicate]
I have been working in large multi module projects over a period of time. One major issue I faced is, how to communicate to other teams of a new feature which they may be interested in.
Consider this ...
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Should adding Maven dependencies be a separate git commit?
I implemented some CSV reading functionality to my Java program, for which I required adding a Maven dependency.
Should changes to pom.xml be part of the commit for the CSV reading functionality, or ...
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