Understanding Maven Dependency Graph or Tree

Working on large Maven projects can be daunting, especially when it comes to managing dependencies between modules and libraries and…

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Log4j RCE 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) mitigation actions

I had an update from my very good friend and excellent consultant Stella Varvarigou in which she explained me that setting com.sun.jndi.rmi.object.trustURLCodebase…

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Cloud Build and Gradle/Maven Caching

One of the pain points in all the development projects that I have worked on has been setting up/getting an…

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Static website generation with Java, Maven and JBake

Did you notice? Last week, we migrated the entire www.optaplanner.org website (1399 files) to build with Java and Maven, instead…

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Jenkins: Automating your delivery pipeline

In this post, we are going to create a Jenkins pipeline for a Java Spring project using Maven and Git:…

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Testing using TestContainers

Part of our everyday ci/cd tasks involve using containers in order for the tests to take effect.So what if you…

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All Your Tests Belong to You: Maintaining Mixed JUnit 4/JUnit 5 and Testng/JUnit 5 Test Suites

If you are seasoned Java developer who practices test-driven development (hopefully, everyone does it), it is very likely JUnit 4…

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Rebuild a Maven repository in 3 steps

In this blog post, I will show a way to very quickly rebuild a Maven repository without having to set…

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It is never enough of them: enriching Apache Avro generated classes with custom Java annotations

Apache Avro, along with Apache Thrift and Protocol Buffers, is often being used as a platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing…

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