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Apache Maven Cookbook

By : Raghuram Bharathan
Book Image

Apache Maven Cookbook

By: Raghuram Bharathan

Overview of this book

If you are a Java developer or a manager who has experience with Apache Maven and want to extend your knowledge, then this is the ideal book for you. Apache Maven Cookbook is for those who want to learn how Apache Maven can be used for build automation. It is also meant for those familiar with Apache Maven, but want to understand the finer nuances of Maven and solve specific problems.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Detecting unused/undeclared dependencies


As your project becomes large and the number of dependencies increase (including transitive dependencies), it is good to know if we have ended up declaring dependencies that we are not using, or if we are using undeclared dependencies (which are brought in by transitive dependencies).

How to do it...

Use the following steps to detect the unused/undeclared dependencies:

  1. Run the following Maven command on the demo-selendroid project that we used earlier:

    mvn dependency:analyze
    
  2. Note the report generated:

    [WARNING] Used undeclared dependencies found:
    [WARNING]    org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:jar:2.43.1:compile
    [WARNING]    org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:jar:1.3:compile
    [WARNING]    io.selendroid:selendroid-common:jar:0.12.0:compile
    [WARNING] Unused declared dependencies found:
    [WARNING]    org.hamcrest:hamcrest-integration:jar:1.3:compile
    

How it works...

As can be seen from the preceding report, Maven has identified a dependency used by the project that...