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The Maven2 book has been released and is available for free online. … continue

I'm happy to announce that a Maven 2 book is being written. It'll be a new book published by Mergere. The current writer team is composed of Maven veterans. By alphabetical order: John D. Casey, Vincent Massol, Brett Porter, Carlos Sanchez, Jason Van Zyl and other contributors.

The book will be made available online for free to the community. The target date for publication … continue

When you have several layers of inheritance, including different settings.xml and such it is really hard to find out what's wrong. Fortunately there's a way to see your pom.xml as it is resolved by Maven2! … continue

If you're like me and you have an OS running in a non-English locale but you still Maven to run in English then here's a tip for you (tip gleaned from Emmanuel Venisse). … continue

When you deploy a Maven 1 artifact to a remote Maven 1 repository you are also deploying your project's POM (project.xml).

If you're deploying to a Maven 1 repository that is synced with ibiblio your project.xml will find its way on the ibiblio Maven 1 repository where it'll automatically converted into a Maven 2 pom.xml file that will be put into the ibilio Maven 2 repository. … continue

Vincent will present Maven 2.0 at Javapolis 2005 on the 15th of December, at 17:00 in Room 1. Come and join us!

Vincent has presented From Maven 1 to Maven 2 at JavaZone 2005. His slides have been made continue

In complement to Maven: A Developer's Notebook we are pleased to offer you an article on building J2EE projects with Maven. We thought that it was an area that we didn't fully cover in the book for lack of space. Thus we've decided to publish this article as … continue

when you're converting an existing Ant project to Maven, one of the first tedious task is to find out the version of the jars that you had been using. Of course you can try to open the JAR and look for the Manifest file but alas in most cases the version is not filled… … continue

If you're building a J2EE application you'll need to add a dependency on the J2EE JAR in your POM. You have probably noticed that the Sun J2EE JAR is not available on ibiblio. This is due to licensing restrictions. … continue

It might be useful to customize a project's current version in certain circumstances. For instance, a continuous integration tool can build a NIGHTBUILD-SNAPSHOT of your project. While the deploy-snapshot achieves this goal, it does not allow external teams to depend on the project, especially if multiple versions are used. In this case, you might have different instances with 1.3-NIGHTBUILD-SNAPSHOT, 2.0-NIGHTBUILD-SNAPSHOT, etc. … continue

There's a useful plugin in Maven 1 called the Multichanges plugin. It's meant to be used un a multiproject scenario and it will create a report listing the latest releases of all plugins. It uses the changes.xml files to discover this information.

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It is possible to use Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) to configure a maven 2 plugin. POJOs of different types could even be used, provided they share the same base class or interface. Note that your POJOs need to be located in the same package as the Mojo to configure and should have a default public constructor. … continue

The JavaZone 2005 conference is scheduled on the 14th and 15th of September 2005. Vincent Massol will be presenting From Maven 1.0 to Maven 2.0 and Jason Van Zyl will be presenting Maven 2.0. Lots of good advertising for Maven 2.0!

Sometime you want to execute some Jelly script or call some goal and you don't want the build to stop in case of a failure. For example you might want to call some specific goal even if another goal that you call fails. … continue

It's possible to have dynamic properties in Maven. A dynamic property is a property whose name is computed. … continue

It is possible to pass an arbitrary XML configuration snippet to a m2 mojo by using the following: … continue

If you're writing a plugin you may have the need to add the tools.jar file to some classpath. You can't add a dependency in your plugin's POM as this Sun JAR cannot be redistributed by Maven on ibiblio. … continue

Here are the latest Maven 1.x plugin releases (latest first):

• Artifact 1.6 (Maven 1.1 only)
• Developer Activity 1.5.2

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Adding two numbers in Jelly is straightforward: Remember that expression between curly braces is akin to a Java expression and thus value1 and value2 must be numbers.
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