Java EE7 and Maven project for newbies – part 1 – a simple maven project structure – the parent pom

Why ? Many times, I am trying to resolve several basic or complex Maven /  Java EE  project structure issues,…

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HOW-TO: Spring Boot and Thymeleaf with Maven

Spring Boot is a great piece of software allowing you to bootstrap Spring application within a few seconds. And it…

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Maven and Java multi-version modules

Introduction Usually, a project has a minimum Java version requirement and that applies to all of its modules. But every…

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A Docker Maven Plugin for Integration Testing

What is Docker? Docker is the buzzword that is taking the DevOps world. If you don’t know yet what is…

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Integration testing with Maven and Docker

Docker is one of the new hot things out there. With a different set of technologies and ideas compared to…

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HOW-TO: Test dependencies in a Maven project (JUnit, Mockito, Hamcrest, AssertJ)

JUnit itself is not enough for most of today’s Java projects. You also need a mocking library, maybe something else.…

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Deploy to Maven Central Repository

Do you need to make your Java library publicly accessible? Is your project hosted on GitHub? Do you like idea…

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Developing Java EE applications with Maven and WebLogic 12c

The WebLogic Server 12c has very nice support for Maven now. The doc for this is kinda hidden though, so…

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4 simple steps to migrate legacy projects from Ant to Maven

For some time we were thinking about migrating our build to maven from ant. It happened last month and was…

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