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Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation

By : Brett Porter, Maria Odea Ching
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Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation

By: Brett Porter, Maria Odea Ching

Overview of this book

<p>By building up a sample application, this book guides developers painlessly through building a project with Maven. This book shows you how to combine Maven with Continuum and Archiva, which will allow you to build an efficient, secure application and make developing in a team easy.<br /><br />You may already be aware of the pitfalls of 'integration hell' caused by changed code being submitted to repositories by a number of developers. When you implement Continuum in your build, you can easily perform continuous integration, avoiding timely rework and reducing cost and valuable time. You will be able to use Maven more efficiently in a team after you learn how to set up Archiva, Apache's repository manager.<br /><br />It's easy to quickly get to work with Maven and get the most out of its related tools when you follow the sequential coverage of the sample application in this book. A focus on team environments ensures that you will avoid the pitfalls that are all too common when working in a team. Soon, by learning the best practices of working with Maven, you will have built an effective, secure Java application.</p>

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Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation
Brett Porter | Maria Odea Ching
Sep, 2009 | 456 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation
Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Maven in a Nutshell
Maven in a Nutshell
A whirlwind tour
Summary
2
Staying in Control with Archiva
Staying in Control with Archiva
Importance of a repository manager
Installing Archiva
Separating your repositories
Hooking up Maven with Archiva
Searching for artifacts in Archiva
Deploying from Maven
Deploying via web form
Summary
3
Building an Application Using Maven
Building an Application Using Maven
Introducing the sample project
Setting up a multi-module build
Creating an organization POM
Configuring basic reports
Preparing for non-code modules
Adding a documentation module
Distributing the application
Summary
4
Application Testing with Maven
Application Testing with Maven
Types of testing in Maven
Working with tests
Integration, functional, and other testing
Summary
5
Reporting and Checks
Reporting and Checks
Review: Example application
Constructing the developer's site
Maven reports
Setting up quality checks
Reporting and quality tools
Reporting best practices
Tying it all together
Summary
6
Useful Maven Plugins
Useful Maven Plugins
The Remote Resources plugin
The Build Number plugin
The Shade plugin
The Build Helper plugin
The AntRun plugin and scripting languages
The Exec plugin
Summary
7
Maven Best Practices
Maven Best Practices
Preparing the development environment
Keeping it simple
Build portability
Build reproducibility
Summary
8
Continuum: Ensuring the Health of your Source Code
Continuum: Ensuring the Health of your Source Code
Knowing when your build breaks
Setting up Continuum
Using Continuum
Summary
9
Continuum in Depth
Continuum in Depth
Releasing projects
Build pipelining and multiple build definitions
Parallel builds
Distributed builds
Maintenance
Summary
10
Archiva in a Team
Archiva in a Team
Roles and permissions
Introducing repository groups
RSS feeds—discovering new artifacts in your repository
Deleting artifacts in your repository
The Archiva reports
The Archiva consumers
Summary
11
Archetypes
Archetypes
What are Maven archetypes?
Generating projects
Common archetypes
Writing a new archetype
Managing catalogs
Summary
12
Maven, Archiva, and Continuum in the Enterprise
Maven, Archiva, and Continuum in the Enterprise
Configuring security
Interfacing with other tools in the enterprise
Summary
Troubleshooting Maven
Troubleshooting Maven
Examining Maven output
Using debug mode
Confirming the expected models
Analyzing dependencies
Download problems
Recent Maven Features
Recent Maven Features
Server password encryption
Reactor project selection
Reconfiguring default life cycle goals
Parallel artifact resolution
Migrating Archiva and Continuum Data
Migrating Archiva and Continuum Data
Using a different database
Database backup and migrating between versions
Index
Index

Generating projects

The Archetype plugin makes it possible for Maven to create Maven projects from a template. Let's start with the most popular goal of the plugin which is archetype:generate.

From archetype:create to archetype:generate

In the previous releases of the Maven Archetype plugin, Maven projects were created from archetypes using the archetype:create goal. When using the archetype:create goal, you needed to know and provide all of the information about the archetype plus the values you want to use on the command line. For example:

mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.effectivemaven.chapter11 \
    -DartifactId=sample-app -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \
    -DpackageName=com.effectivemaven.chapter11.sample \
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

It's easy to know this if we're using an archetype we created, but what if we're not? We have to hunt through the documentation to find all the available Maven archetypes (unless we've memorized all of them).

Now with the archetype:generate...

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