How to Debug Your Maven Build with Eclipse

When running a Maven build with many plugins (e.g. the jOOQ or Flyway plugins), you may want to have a…

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Highlighting Checkstyle Links using Maven and IntelliJ IDEA

Although IntelliJ IDEA has en excellent Maven integration, it doesn not recognize file references or file links in the output…

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Getting version string from a Maven based web application

When you package a maven project, it will automatically generate a pom.properties file inside that will contains the version, artifactId…

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Java EE, Docker and Maven (Tech Tip #89)

Java EE applications are typically built and packaged using Maven. For example, github.com/javaee-samples/javaee7-docker-maven is a trivial Java EE 7 application and shows the…

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Unit And Integration Test Reports For Maven Projects In SonarQube

Since SonarQube 4.2. the test report isn’t generated by the Sonar Maven Plugin during a Maven build (see SonarQube’s blog…

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Use This Preference to Speed up Your Eclipse m2e Configuration

Who doesn’t know them. The good old JFace dialogs in Eclipse that give you a visual representation of what is…

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There is a Mojo in My Dojo (How to write a Maven plugin)

I have been up to my armpits involved using Maven at work.  For good number of developers I will hear,…

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Geb Gems: Running Geb Spock tests with Maven

Geb is framework which makes it easy to create functional tests for your application. Since you can use Groovy, Spock and…

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Creating a DSL for AWT’s Robot

The Java SDK ships with the class java.awt.Robot that allows the automation of keyboard and mouse input as well as…

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