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Since pulling in Dmitry's test-compile mojo, and adding a test script runner mojo to the clojure-maven-plugin I thought I'd try something fun like running the maven emma plugin against a very simple test project. I was pleasantly surprised to see so

With all the talk from Sun about bringing a focus to modularity in the JDK via Project Jigsaw, I wonder how things would shape up if a modular build tool such as Apache Maven was also adopted. I've never looked at the JDK sources/build process and I

In order to learn more about using Apache Maven beyond a more 'simple' build, I decided to build a maven plugin, or mojo as they're called to wrap my simple database migration library. Now it's as easy as a few lines of XML and SQL to have your data

For the last few weeks I've been working part time on a small project using Apache Maven as its build tool and this time round I'm finding Maven doesn't suck as much I thought the first time I encountered it. Sure this is a small project, but Maven s

After reading all the rants about Maven vs Ant and the Maven Sucks/Doesn't Suck posts of late (JavaLobby, Howard Lewis Ship, Don Brown and others) I'm wondering why everyone seems to suggest using Ivy, yet no one ever mentions the Maven Ant Tasks sub

For awhile I've been wanting to explore migrating our build platform from Apache Ant to Apache Maven and taking advantage of dependency management, the release plugin, and a standardized build process. One problem I always seem to hit whenever I star

Jason van Zyl just posted to the Maven users group about the first release from the new company <a href="http://www.sonatype.com"Sonatype: Maven - The Definitive Guide is a new book about the maven project build tool from Apache. So far the books

As we're starting to give our development environment a much needed update at ${work} I've been recently revisiting my usage of the Ivy dependency manager on my project and comparing it with the often hated Apache Maven (or at least the Maven Tasks f

It's quite possibly purely coincidental but ever since I started playing with Maven 2 I've ended up feeling sick as a dog. Raspy throat, guttural deep cough and a husky croaking voice that makes Darth Vader sound like a Tenor. But regardless of t