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This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.

Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.

Posts in 2025
  • POM proliferation, part 1

    Wednesday, July 02, 2025 in User blog: Tamas

    This blog entry was done as a response to Pom-Pom-Pom. Note: this entry does not want to be hurting, personal or anything like that; still my native language is not english, so bear with me (and feel free to create updates to it). Where to start? By …

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  • Mimir and RRF

    Thursday, June 12, 2025 in User blog: Tamas

    Just to remind people about Mimir, and why they want to use it: if you remember the Never Say Never blog entry diagram: sequenceDiagram autoNumber Session->>Session: lookup Session->>Local Repositories: lookup Session->>Remote …

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  • Keep Central first!

    Thursday, June 12, 2025 in User blog: Tamas

    Just an advice: when using Maven 3 (and 4) you do want to make sure Central is always first remote repository Maven would “consult”. Just add following snippet(s) to your user-wide settings.xml: <profiles> <profile> …

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  • build != testing != publishing

    Sunday, June 01, 2025 in User blog: Tamas

    This article represents my own stance, and should not be taken as any kind of “rule”. build != testing != publishing People tend to go for simplest solutions, and that is okay. Still, that is many times not quite feasible. As an awkward …

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  • Never Say Never

    Monday, March 17, 2025 in User blog: Tamas

    This article assumes reader has basic knowledge about Maven, POM and related things. The main point is to offer high level conceptualization and explain things “why’s” and “why not”, and finally explain why you …

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  • Mason 0.1.0

    Friday, March 14, 2025 in Releases

    The Maveniverse Mason 0.1.0 is on Central! To use it with Maven 4, add snippet below to .mvn/extensions.xml or ~/.m2/extensions.xml: <extension> <groupId>eu.maveniverse.maven.mason</groupId> …

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Posts in 2024
  • Maven4 ante portas! (Part 1)

    Saturday, December 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas

    Maven4 is coming, so it may be time to explain some of the changes it will bring on. I’d like to start from “user facing” end, the mvn command and what has changed (visible and invisible changes). How it was: Maven3 In short, Maven3 …

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  • Handling sensitive data in Maven

    Saturday, December 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas

    Maven is well known for flexible configurability. Many times, those configuration and setting files can contain sensitive data (like passwords). Long time ago, it was even common practice to put gpg.passphrase in POM properties! The latest GPG plugin …

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  • The Maveniverse site goes live!

    Thursday, November 07, 2024 in News

    We are making up some lag and bringing Maveniverse site online. Stay tuned for updated content.

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  • Migrating to Maven 3, part 3

    Monday, September 09, 2024 in User blog: Tamas

    From Maven perspective, whether a component is defined as Plexus component (via Plexus XML, crafted manually or during build with plexus-component-metadata Maven Plugin) or JSR330 component, does not matter. But there is a subtle difference. Plexus …

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