Automatic promotion of artifacts to Maven Central from Gradle

Quick tutorial how to promote/release artifacts in a Gradle project to Maven Central, without clicking in the Nexus GUI with…

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Spock 1.0 with Groovy 2.4 configuration comparison in Maven and Gradle

Quick tutorial how to configure Spock 1.0 with Groovy 2.4 using Maven and Gradle. Spock 1.0 has been finally released.…

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Prevent ‘No plugin found’ in multi-module maven

Defining a maven plugin on a submodule in a multi-module maven project can give us a ‘No plugin found’ error.…

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Java EE7 and Maven project for newbies – part 8

Part #1, Part #2, Part #3, Part #4, Part #5, Part #6, Part #7  Part #8 It’s been a long…

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Setup Local Nexus Repository and Deploying WAR File from Maven

Maven Central serves as the central repository manager where binary artifacts are uploaded by different teams/companies/individuals and shared with rest…

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Maven Tip: All about executable jars

Maven Tip: All about executable jars An executable jar is an extremely useful artefact when it comes to distributing your…

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Separating Integration Tests from Unit Tests Using Maven Failsafe & JUnit @Category

Why Unit Tests Should Run Separately From Integration Tests TDD at the Unit Testing level is fairly straight-forward, since classes in unit…

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Caching Strategy Reminder for Maven-Based Docker Builds

My local development feedback loop between code change and runnable container was annoyingly long on a Maven-based project I was…

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Spring MVC 4 Quickstart Maven Archetype Improved

Spring Boot allows getting started with Spring extremely easy. But there are still people interested in not using Spring Boot…

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