Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation

456 Pages·2009·9.13 MB·English

by  Brett Porter

Apache Maven 2
Effective Implementation
Build and manage applications with Maven,
Continuum, and Archiva
Maria Odea Ching
Brett Porter

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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Apache Maven 2 Effective Implementation
Build and manage applications with Maven, Continuum, and Archiva
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Credits
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Maria Odea Ching Gagandeep Singh
Brett Porter
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Reviewers
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Emmanuel Venisse Project Coordinator
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Carsten Ziegeler
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About the Authors
Maria Odea Ching grew up in Daet, a small town in the Philippines, then moved
to the country's capital, Manila, when she went to college. She took up Computer
Studies at De La Salle University, and graduated in 2004. She started using open
source tools from her first job after graduating. From then on, she got interested
in the open source philosophy. She was introduced to Apache Maven, Apache
Continuum, and Apache Archiva early on in her career. She became a committer
and a Project Management Committee member of Apache Maven. Eventually, she
was elected as PMC Chair of Apache Archiva. She is also a member of the Apache
Software Foundation.
Deng is currently a Senior Software Engineer and serves as the development lead for
the Maestro project.
First, I'd like to thank Brett for the whirlwind endeavor which is this
book. I'd also like to thank all our reviewers—Wendy, Emmanuel,
Carsten and the Packt team, for taking the time to review and go
through each chapter. You guys rock! And of course without the
communities of Maven, Continuum, and Archiva, we wouldn't
have anything to write about. So I'd like to thank each and everyone
(committers/developers, contributors, buggers) in these respective
communities. I'd also like to give special thanks to our Exist/G2iX
family for their continuous support.

And last but definitely not the least, I'd like to thank my family and
my boyfriend, Mike, for their unfaltering love and support and for
being so patient and understanding when I have to run off to work
on the book.
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Brett Porter is a software developer from Sydney, Australia with a passion for
development tooling and automation. Seeking a more standardized and reproducible
solution to organize, build, and deploy a number of software projects across
teams, he discovered an early beta of Maven 1.0 in 2003, and has been heavily
involved in the development of the project since. He is a member of the Apache
Maven Project Management Committee, and has conducted presentations and
training on Maven and related tooling at several conferences and events. He
founded the Archiva project in 2005. Brett is also a Director and Member of the
Apache Software Foundation.
Brett is currently VP, Product Development at G2iX, in charge of the MaestroDev
division. He and his team seek to make developers more efficient by offering
support and services for development and automation tools including Apache
Maven, Apache Continuum, Apache Archiva, and Selenium.
Brett was co-author of the book Better Builds with Maven, the first book to be written
about the Maven 2.0 release in 2005, and has been involved in reviewing Maven: A
Developer's Notebook and Java Power Tools.
I'd first like to thank my co-author and friend Deng for agreeing to
participate in this book and lending her experience with Archiva and
Continuum. I am grateful to all of the reviewers that volunteered
their time to help make this the best that it can be. My great thanks
go to all the members of the open source community that participate
in these projects—the developers, as well as those that contribute
patches, detailed bug reports, or answer questions on the user
lists—not only do we build great software together, but I get the
chance to work with truly remarkable individuals.

Finally, my love and thanks go to my wife Laura for sparing some
more of our precious time so that I could complete this book, and for
supporting me in everything I do.
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About the Reviewers
Wendy Smoak is a member of The Apache Software Foundation and a committer
on several open source projects, where she focuses on user support, documentation,
and infrastructure. By day she is a Solutions Architect with G2iX, where her work
centers around enterprise adoption of Apache Maven and related technologies.
Emmanuel Venisse has been developing and architecting J2EE applications
for eleven years for bank, government, and holiday company projects. For the
past three years, he's been working for Mergere/Devzuz with some other Maven
contributors, like Brett and Deng, around a packaged Maven/Continuum/
Archiva product—Maestro. He has been working freelance for five years. For the
last six years, he's been working, in his spare time, on Maven, Continuum, and
Archiva projects as a core developer, and he's the Continuum project chair. He has
contributed too to Maven: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly) and Better build with
Maven (Exist). He lives in Versailles, France, with his wife Florence and two children.
I would first like to thank my wife, Florence, without whose love
and support, my work on Apache projects and this book wouldn't
have been possible. I'd also like to thank my children who have to
see their dad working on his laptop instead of playing with them.
Finally, I'd like to thank Brett and Deng for letting me help them on
this book.
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Carsten Ziegeler is senior developer and software architect for JEE and portal
applications at Day Software. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation
and has been participating in several open source projects for more than fifteen
years. Carsten is a member of several Apache communities and project management
committees such as Cocoon, Felix, Sling, Excalibur, and Portals. In addition to this,
Carsten frequently writes artcles, reviews books, and can be found presenting at
various conferences.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Maven in a Nutshell 7
A whirlwind tour 7
Installing Maven 7
Creating a new project from an archetype 9
Building the project 15
Reusing builds 18
Adding dependencies 19
Adding functionality through plugins 22
Adding resources 27
Running tests 28
Getting help 32
Enhancing the development process 33
Viewing detailed project information 34
Multiple module builds 34
What if I need to convert an existing project? 35
Summary 35
Chapter 2: Staying in Control with Archiva 37
Importance of a repository manager 37
Installing Archiva 40
Separating your repositories 44
Hooking up Maven with Archiva 46
Setting up a proxy 46
Configuring your settings.xml 51
Building your project 52
Searching for artifacts in Archiva 55
Deploying from Maven 59
Creating a new user 60
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