User blog: Tamas
This sub-blog section is authored by Tamas Cservenak (@cstamas).
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Resolver Ideas
Wednesday, June 03, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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This post is just “tinkering starter”, and will get updated as I progress with PoC, or discuss these ideas with others. I just wanted to share the ideas I had, and maybe get some feedback on them, or even better, get some help or hints …
Nisse got Gradle plugin!
Thursday, May 07, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Reusable (minimal-dependency) “core”, and thin (no logic, just config) Mojos around, is how things should be done. This is how Nisse was done as well among others, and is now the first Maveniverse project, that receives “equally …
Taming Maven Version Ranges
Friday, April 17, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Maven ranges are very controversial topic. If you ask anyone, the response most often is “do not use them”. And while there are good reasons for that, there are also some use cases where they can be useful. So lets see how can Maven …
Principles used to build Maven
Saturday, March 21, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Here “how Maven is done” is being discussed, with a bit of historical overview, to understand the ideas used to build Maven, as we know it today (so not what it does but how it does). The first Maven “as we know it” was Maven …
Component Scopes in Maven
Thursday, March 19, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Maven internals uses dependency injection (DI) since it’s inception in 2002 (that is, since Maven 2, if we don’t count Maven 1). And historically it used Plexus Container for DI, while today it uses Eclipse Sisu that also provides Plexus …
DOMTrip
Thursday, February 05, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Round-trip editing is a programmatic changing/editing of an existing XML document, like for example a Maven POM is, while preserving all the formatting, comments and all properties of the original document. Programmatic “editing” of POMs …
Maven @ IPFS (II)
Tuesday, February 03, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Lately has been toying with IPFS to achieve content sharing without centralized infrastructure. In other words, instead to free-ride on some (centralized) infrastructure that may be a public good, or some commercial offering, solve the publishing …
Goal go-offline must go
Tuesday, February 03, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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The Maven go-offline goal is inherently bad, and will try explain it why. For related discussion, see this issue. Maven 4 is not Maven 2 The history of this goal predates many Maven version, and it appeared around Maven 1 or Maven 2. People simply …
Maven @ IPFS (I)
Thursday, January 22, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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Lately has been toying with IPFS to achieve content sharing without centralized infrastructure. In other words, instead to free-ride on some (centralized) infrastructure that may be a public good, or some commercial offering, solve the publishing …
Finding own footsteps
Friday, January 16, 2026 in User blog: Tamas
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I bet many of us faced a problem, spent almost whole day on chasing it, just to discover their own footsteps around… My case was that I had a strange issue with Njord ITs: one PR was “fine”, except the ITs failed only on single …