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Is there a way to exclude a Maven dependency globally?

Does this help? http://jlorenzen.blogspot.com/2009/06/maven-global-excludes.html “Assuming I want to exclude avalon-framework from my WAR, I would add the following to my projects POM with a scope of provided. This works across all transitive dependencies and allows you to specify it once. <dependencies> <dependency> <artifactId>avalon-framework</artifactId> <groupId>avalon-framework</groupId> <version>4.1.3</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> This even works when specifying it in … Read more

What is the difference in Maven between dependency and plugin tags in pom.xml?

Both plugins and dependencies are Jar files. But the difference between them is, most of the work in maven is done using plugins; whereas dependency is just a Jar file which will be added to the classpath while executing the tasks. For example, you use a compiler-plugin to compile the java files. You can’t use … Read more

What does mvn install in maven exactly do

As you might be aware of, Maven is a build automation tool provided by Apache which does more than dependency management. We can make it as a peer of Ant and Makefile which downloads all of the dependencies required. On a mvn install, it frames a dependency tree based on the project configuration pom.xml on … Read more

Maven adding mainClass in pom.xml with the right folder path

First, your main class doesn’t include src/main/java. Look at the package declaration in that Java file. For example, package org.jis;, then add the main class to that. In other words, it’s only org.jis.Main. You need to configure the maven-jar-plugin instead the of the maven-compiler-plugin. The jar-plugin is the one which is responsible for packaging and … Read more

How can I view transitive dependencies of a Maven pom.xml file?

On the CLI, use mvn dependency:tree (Here are some additional Usage notes) When running dependency:tree on multi-module maven project, use mvn compile dependency:tree instead1. Otherwise, the POM Editor in M2Eclipse (Maven integration for Eclipse) is very good, and it includes a hierarchical dependency view. 1If you don’t compile, you might get error Failed to execute … Read more

Reading Properties file from POM file in Maven

When you start up Maven from the command line, it goes through a number of stages. Here is a pseudo description of these stages, I am intentionally simplifying the exact sequencing (with the risk of saying things that are slightly incorrect/out-of-order) so that you can see why what you are trying to do cannot work. … Read more

IntelliJ – Convert a Java project/module into a Maven project/module

Right-click on the module, select “Add framework support…”, and check the “Maven” technology. (This also creates a pom.xml for you to modify.) If you mean adding source repository elements, I think you need to do that manually–not sure. Pre-IntelliJ 13 this won’t convert the project to the Maven Standard Directory Layout, 13+ it will.

Verification of dependency authenticity in Maven POM based automated build systems

tl;dr: Non-existent verification mechanisms in Maven and missing language constructs in the POM’s DSL are a serious security threat. Until MNG-6026 is addressed, use someting like Gradle Witness. Introduction None of the answers provided so far seem to solve the problem. Signing artifacts is only a first step into the right direction. But the condition … Read more

Maven – Depend on assembled zip

Welcome to Stack Overflow :). You are on the right way. Your real problem is using a zip. The following configuration is ok and work great for me. It’s an old one (2 years ago), and I’m not sure that match the best practices. But I Know that’s working. This allow me to share some … Read more

repository element was not specified in the POM inside distributionManagement element or in -DaltDep loymentRepository=id::layout::url parameter

You should include the repository where you want to deploy in the distribution management section of the pom.xml. Example: <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd”> … <distributionManagement> <repository> <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion> <id>corp1</id> <name>Corporate Repository</name> <url>scp://repo/maven2</url> <layout>default</layout> </repository> … </distributionManagement> … </project> See Distribution Management