Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

224 Pages·2011·4.78 MB·English

Apache Maven 3
Cookbook
Over 50 recipes towards optimal Java software
engineering with Maven 3
Srirangan
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Apache Maven 3 Cookbook
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About the Author
Srirangan is a passionate programmer with nine years of experience in freelance, open
source, and Enterprise. He has executed projects in a broad range of technologies including
Python, PHP, Scala, Java, Adobe Flex, HTML5, Javascript, and so on.
He is the creator of Review19 (http://www.review19.com); an innovative, real-time Agile
team collaboration and project management tool. He is also involved with India Defence
(http://www.indiadefence.in) which is India's largest web property dedicated to the
defense sector.
Sri is a senior consultant in Inphina Technologies (http://www.inphina.com), a rapidly
expanding, high-end technology startup in New Delhi focusing on cloud computing
(Google App Engine, Hadoop) and emerging technologies.
He is an enthusiastic open source contributor and his open source projects are available on
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About the Reviewer
Carsten Ziegeler is a senior developer and software architect for JEE and portal
applications at Adobe Systems. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has
been participating for more than twenty years in several open source projects. Carsten is
a member of several Apache communities and project management committees like Felix,
Sling, and Portals. In addition, Carsten is frequently writing articles, reviewing books, and
presenting at various conferences.
Emmanuel Venisse has been developing, architecturing, and integrating J2EE
applications for thirteen years for banks, government, holiday company projects, and so
on. For the last six years, he has worked as a freelancer. For the last eight years, he's been
working, in his spare time, on Apache Maven, Continuum and Archiva projects as a core
developer and he's also the Continuum project leader. He has contributed to the majority of
books written about Apache Maven.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Basics of Apache Maven 7
Setting up Apache Maven on Windows 8
Setting up Apache Maven on Linux 11
Setting up Apache Maven on Mac 12
Verifying the Apache Maven installation 13
Creating a new project 14
Compiling and testing a project 17
Understanding the Project Object Model 19
Understanding the build lifecycle 21
Understanding build profiles 22
Chapter 2: Software Engineering Techniques 25
Build automation 26
Project modularization 28
Dependency management 31
Source code quality checks 34
Test Driven Development 37
Acceptance testing automation 40
Deployment automation 44
Chapter 3: Agile Team Collaboration 47
Creating centralized remote repositories 48
Performing continuous integration with Hudson 54
Integrating source code management 57
Team integration with Apache Maven 60
Implementing environment integration 64
Distributed development 67
Working in offline mode 69
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Chapter 4: Reporting and Documentation 73
Documenting with a Maven site 74
Generating Javadocs with Maven 77
Generating unit test reports 81
Generating code coverage reports 85
Generating code quality reports 87
Setting up the Maven dashboard 90
Chapter 5: Java Development with Maven 95
Building a web application 96
Running a web application 100
Enterprise Java development with Maven 102
Using Spring Framework with Maven 106
Using Hibernate persistence with Maven 112
Using Seam Framework with Maven 119
Chapter 6: Google Development with Maven 125
Setting up the Android development environment 126
Developing an Android application 128
Testing and debugging an Android application 132
Developing a Google Web Toolkit application 134
Testing and debugging a Google Web Toolkit application 139
Developing a Google App Engine application 142
Chapter 7: Scala, Groovy, and Flex 147
Integrating Scala development with Maven 148
Integrating Groovy development with Maven 153
Integrating Flex development with Maven 156
Chapter 8: IDE Integration 163
Creating a Maven project with Eclipse 3.7 164
Importing a Maven project with Eclipse 3.7 168
Creating a Maven project with NetBeans 7 172
Importing a Maven project with NetBeans 7 177
Creating a Maven project with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 179
Importing a Maven project with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 183
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Chapter 9: Extending Apache Maven 187
Creating a Maven plugin using Java 188
Making your Java Maven plugin useful 192
Documenting your Maven plugin 196
Creating a Maven plugin using Ant 198
Creating a Maven plugin using JRuby 200
Index 203
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