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Maven Build Customization

By : Lorenzo Anardu, Roberto Baldi, Umberto Antonio Cicero, Riccardo Giomi, Giacomo Veneri
Book Image

Maven Build Customization

By: Lorenzo Anardu, Roberto Baldi, Umberto Antonio Cicero, Riccardo Giomi, Giacomo Veneri

Overview of this book

<p>Maven is one of the most popular tools used to control the dependencies and to administer a Java project. Maven can be used by newbies without the need to learn complex mechanisms, but it is also a powerful tool for big projects developed by different teams and organized over different modules and repositories.</p> <p>This book will provide you with all the information you need, right from managing dependencies to improving the build process of your organization. Starting with a simple project, you will create your development environment step-by-step, automatically build your code from resources (XML, DB), and package your JAR, WAR, and EAR files for different environments. Furthermore, you will learn about the complex hereditary features of Maven.</p> <p>Finally, this book will benefit you by teaching Maven-Gradle and Maven-Eclipse integration using the m2e plugin, managing the Maven repository from Gradle, and building a working Maven environment from Gradle.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Maven Build Customization
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Appendix A. Integrating Maven – Gradle

Gradle is gradually becoming an important and stable tool for project automation (at the time of writing this book, the latest version used is 2.0). We decided to mention this tool because its percentage of adoption is growing fast; moreover, it was adopted as an official building tool for Android apps by Google at Google I/O 2013. After an official announcement of the Gradle adoption by Google, this tool was completely integrated into the developer IDE Google Android Studio; the new Eclipse plugin will be introduced by the end of 2014, as announced by Gradleware (the Gradle developing team). All these facts, together with Gradle's ability to download dependencies from Maven repositories, have made Gradle eligible to be mentioned in this book.