Cook Book: Maven Source Code Samples

Apache Maven (Maven for short) was first released on March 30, 2002, as an Apache Top-Level Project under the free Apache 2.0 License. This license also allows free use by companies in a commercial environment without paying license fees.

The word Maven comes from Yiddish and means something like “collector of knowledge.”

Maven is a pure command-line program developed in the Java programming language. It belongs to the category of build tools and is primarily used in Java software development projects. In the official documentation, Maven describes itself as a project management tool, as its functions extend far beyond creating (compiling) binary executable artifacts from source code. Maven can be used to generate quality analyses of program code and API documentation, to name just a few of its diverse applications.

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This online course is suitable for both beginners with no prior knowledge and experienced experts. Each lesson is self-contained and can be individually selected. Extensive supplementary material explains concepts and is supported by numerous references. This allows you to use the Apache Maven Master Class course as a reference. New content is continually being added to the course. If you choose to become an Apache Maven Master Class member, you will also have full access to exclusive content.

Developer

Maven Basics
Maven on the Command Line
IDE Integration
Archetypes: Creating Project Structures
Test Integration (TDD & BDD) with Maven
Test Containers with Maven
Multi-Module Projects for Microservices

Build Manager / DevOps

Release Management with Maven
Deploy to Maven Central
Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager
Maven Docker Container
Creating Docker Images with Maven
Encrypted Passwords
Process & Build Optimization

Quality Manager

Maven Site – The Reporting Engine
Determine and evaluate test coverage
Static code analysis
Review coding style specifications

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Posted on 2025-06-25 by Elmar Dott

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JPoint Moscow 2023

Posted on 2023-04-12 by Elmar Dott

Test Driven: from zero to hero

In the software industry, it is a common agreement that the code base has sufficient test automation. Because this is necessary for a stable DevOps process and secure refactoring. But the reality is completely different. Almost every project I joined during my career didn’t have any lines of test code. If we think about the fact that after more than 40 years, 80% of all commercial software projects fail, we should not be surprised. But this doesn’t have to be like this. In this talk, we demonstrate how easy it is to introduce, even in huge projects, a test-driven approach. The technical setup is a standard Java project with Apache Maven and JUnit 5.

jConf Peru 2021 [2]

Posted on 2021-06-19 by Elmar Dott

Mission accomplished: deploy to Maven Central

Many developers have ideas they work on it in their spare time. The most of us are convinced about open source and share their own projects on platforms like GitHub. But what happen after a publication of the source code? If you really want to gain people to use your project you’re not done yet. It’s also a good idea to publish your artifacts for a simple usage.

The most famous storage for binary Java Artifacts is Maven Central. Doesn‘t matter if you use in your projects Ivy, Gradle or Maven as dependency management, all those technologies access to Maven Central. In this talk you will learn how to publish your artifacts with Maven to Sonatype Nexuss OSS. We pass through all steps from creating accounts until the the binaries are available. In between I give some general hints about the usage of repository managers and helpful tricks for a lightweight Release Management.

Learn things about token replacement, executable jar, BOM, Dependency Management, enforcement, reporting and much more in live demonstrations.