Introduction to Maven 2

Basics

Convention over Configuration Declarative project management DRY

Build Lifecycles

Default Site Clean

Dependency Management

Declarative Transitive 3 qualifiers per dependency

GroupIdAritfactIdVersion

Coping with Sun jars

Repositories

Place where all jars are stored Local Network / proxy Central

Archetypes

Project templates Available for various project types DEMO – create sample JSF app mvn archetype:create -

DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.myfaces.maven \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-myfaces \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT \ -DgroupId=myAppId \ -DartifactId=testApp

Reports

Monitor code health Metrics Code Coverage View codebase as a webpage Track changes

Mavenizing your project

Modify build section: <build><sourceDirectory>srcDir</sourceDirectory><testSourceDirectory>testDir

</testSourceDirectory>…

</build>

Multi – module projects

Use <dependencyManagement> to make your life easier

mvn install needed w/ inherited test classes

Let’s look at Terracotta.org’s codebase

Resources

http://maven.apache.org http://del.icio.us/jimbethancourt/maven