Apache Maven 102: Best Practices
summary
Maven advice that actually changes builds: prefer pinned Maven and Java versions with the Maven Wrapper and sdkman, avoid dependency ranges because they make builds break unpredictably, and stop habitually running clean/install — a 14-module project shows jar build in 0.5s and install in 0.13s. Use surefire/failsafe split for unit vs integration tests, merge coverage with JaCoCo, avoid test-jars and reckless shade usage, enable build cache and multithreaded/parallel tests, try Maven Daemon and evaluate Maven 4’s new POM split.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:06Speaker background
- 2:20Gradle and Maven
- 3:39XML and dependencies
- 5:07Managing dependencies
- 6:35Dependency management
- 8:17Build lifecycle and tips
- 13:37Plugin configuration
- 15:24Custom logic in Maven
- 16:53Commit or omit
- 18:21Dependency ranges
- 20:06Separating tests
- 21:36Maven profiles
- 22:30Test jars and Uber jars
- 23:07Source jars and reproducibility
- 24:02Build optimization
- 25:40Parallel testing
- 26:34Maven demon and version 4
- 27:52Final wrap-up
- 28:49Audience questions
- 31:29Final thank you
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