Practical Java Tips
Copyright © 2009 Maximilian Berger, University of Innsbruck
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If the project contains a contributor or thanks list, it must mention my name (Max Berger) in the same style as it would mention someone contributing a patch.
 
Project Management
Maven
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Download from http://maven.apache.org/
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Complete Project Management Tool
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Describe WHAT rather than HOW
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Convention over configuration
 
Important Conventions
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Project is described in
pom.xml - 
          
Java source is in
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Java tests are in
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Webpage is in
src/site - 
          
Artifacts go to
target/ 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
         http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>at.uibk.ac.at.dps</groupId>
  <artifactId>sample</artifactId>
  <name>Sample Project</name>
  <version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <inceptionYear>2009</inceptionYear>
  <licenses>
    <license>
      <name>GNU General Public License, Version 3.0</name>
      <url>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0-standalone.html</url>
      <distribution>manual</distribution>
    </license>
  </licenses>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.5</source>
          <target>1.5</target>
          <debug>false</debug>
          <optimize>true</optimize>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
      <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
      <version>5.8</version>
      <type>jar</type>
      <classifier>jdk15</classifier>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
       <version>1.1.1</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>
      Important Maven commands
- mvn test
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Compile and run tests
 - mvn package
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Compile, run tests, and package
 - mvn install
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Compile, run tests, package, and install locally
 - mvn site
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Run reports and generate website
 
For a list of available plugins use http://www.mvnrepository.com/ .
Other items that can be configured are
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description
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developers
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contributors
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scm