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Maven4 ante portas! (Part 1)
Saturday, December 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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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 …
Handling sensitive data in Maven
Saturday, December 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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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 …
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.
Migrating to Maven 3, part 3
Monday, September 09, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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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 …
What is MIMA (and what is not)?
Saturday, September 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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Here am trying to explain what is Maveniverse/MIMA, but also to explain what it is not. There is Maven, as we know it, and there are libraries that Maven uses to be “Maven as we know it”, like Resolver is. Many times, use case requires …
Migrating to Maven 3, part 2
Saturday, September 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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A small fable for myself and others… The Takari Polyglot Maven 0.7.1 was released not so long ago, and it contained one trivial change, this pull request. The goal was to fix following issue: JRuby folks had some problem, that could be solved …
Migrating to Maven 3, part 1
Saturday, September 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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As weird as title sounds, given Maven 4 is “around the corner”, the sad reality is that there are still way too many libraries and plugins in “Maven ecosystem” that rely on some sort of “compatibility” layers (and …
Very simple CI setup
Saturday, September 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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I’d just like to throw in a short explanation how (IMHO) should organize CI jobs for simple Maven projects for better and faster turnaround. People usually “throw up a matrix” and just run mvn verify -P run-its. Sure, that is really …
How to add new Maven lifecycle mapping
Saturday, September 07, 2024 in User blog: Tamas
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Ever repeating question from plugin/extension developers is “how to add new packaging” (in a “modern way”). For ages we did it by manually crafting plexus.xml in the plugin or extension JAR, that was not only error-prone but …