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  GroupId  AritfactId  Version 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: srcDir testDir …

Multi – module projects Use to make your life easier mvn install needed w/ inherited test classes Let’s look at Terracotta.org’s codebase

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