As you maybe aware, the Maven enforcer plugin provides the option to enforce specific rules while building a project. For instance we coul...

Guys, for getting the unit test coverage report in SonarQube for code quality and analysis, let us look into how to use the Jacoco plugin f...

When using the Maven javadoc plugin for generating javadoc for your project, we also have the option of changing the default output direct...

In a Maven build of a multi module project, sometimes we may want to skip tests for only a specific module. For illustration, let's con...

In this post, we will see how to generate a report to list the unused dependencies of a Java project built using Maven. We will use the d...

This post will be helpful in a scenario where you are required to deploy i.e upload just a specific individual file (eg: xyz.zip or abc.jar...

In today's fresh post, we will look into how to increment and/or update version numbers in pom.xml of your project using Maven. Let...

Guys, in todays post we'll look into an example where we want to extract version number from pom.xml of a Maven based project. In other...

Guys I earlier posted a quick short article on how to setup Jenkins with custom Ant Home . In today's post you'll learn how to simi...

Guys, as you maybe aware the command "mvn package" creates a package and stores it in the target directory. On the other side if ...

In Maven, the difference between mvn install and mvn deploy is the following : mvn install is used to install the artifact/dependency o...

In order to execute a Maven build in offline mode, run the following command : mvn -o install  OR  mvn --offline install. In offline mo...

The jar created by the Ant build can be then attached to the project using the Build Helper Maven plugin . Consider the following exam...

If you're using Eclipse IDE for any Java based projects, you might want to make .classpath or .project files visible. In order to do ...

While importing a Maven project into eclipse, you may sometimes get an error like "Unsupported IClasspathentry kind=4". The bes...

In order to make Maven work perfectly, we need to define 2 distinct environment variables. They are M2_HOME and M2_REPO . Let's see th...

In order to import a Maven project into Eclipse, go to the project directory and type the following in Terminal. mvn eclipse:eclipse Th...

If you're using Maven for building projects, occasionally you might come across situation where you wonder what version of a certain pl...

Recently, while trying to install Artifactory on my Mac OS X machine, I encountered a weird error. Finding a solution was a bit tricky and ...

Occasionally, while using Apache Maven, we may come across scenarios when we would have to manually install 3rd party dependency jars. This...