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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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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

About the Reviewers

Wendy Smoak is a member of The Apache Software Foundation and a committer on several open source projects, where she focuses on user support, documentation, and infrastructure. By day she is a Solutions Architect with G2iX, where her work centers around enterprise adoption of Apache Maven and related technologies.

Emmanuel Venisse has been developing and architecting J2EE applications for eleven years for bank, government, and holiday company projects. For the past three years, he's been working for Mergere/Devzuz with some other Maven contributors, like Brett and Deng, around a packaged Maven/Continuum/Archiva product—Maestro. He has been working freelance for five years. For the last six years, he's been working, in his spare time, on Maven, Continuum, and Archiva projects as a core developer, and he's the Continuum project chair. He has contributed too to Maven: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly) and Better build with Maven (Exist). He lives in Versailles, France, with his wife Florence and two children.

I would first like to thank my wife, Florence, without whose love and support, my work on Apache projects and this book wouldn't have been possible. I'd also like to thank my children who have to see their dad working on his laptop instead of playing with them. Finally, I'd like to thank Brett and Deng for letting me help them on this book.

Carsten Ziegeler is senior developer and software architect for JEE and portal applications at Day Software. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been participating in several open source projects for more than fifteen years. Carsten is a member of several Apache communities and project management committees such as Cocoon, Felix, Sling, Excalibur, and Portals. In addition to this, Carsten frequently writes artcles, reviews books, and can be found presenting at various conferences.

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