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20+ Maven plugins listed for an enterprise Java (i.e. a JEE) project

In Maven, there are build and the reporting plugins. Build plugins will be executed during the build, and they should be configured in the “build” element.

What is a “Plugin Architecture”?

In this architecture, a core application defines an interface, and the functionality will be implemented as a …

8+ JMeter performance testing interview Q&As

Performance testing is an important process of any software development. You can bring this up yourself to many open-ended questions like — Tell me about yourself? What are some of your recent accomplishments that you are proud of? Setting up a performance/load test script is always the first step in… …

Checkstyle & Maven Tutorial

Step 1: The pom.xml with the checkstyle plugin and properties.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.mytutorial</groupId>
    <artifactId>simpleSpringRestWeb</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <name>simpleSpringRestWeb</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        //...
        <javac.src.version>1.7</javac.src.version>
        <javac.target.version>1.7</javac.target.version>
        <test.coverage.rate>100</test.coverage.rate>
        <cobertura.skip>false</cobertura.skip>

        <checkstyle.failOnError>true</checkstyle.failOnError>
        <checkstyle.consoleOutput>true</checkstyle.consoleOutput>
    </properties>

   //...	
   <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <failsOnError>${checkstyle.failOnError}</failsOnError>
                    <consoleOutput>${checkstyle.consoleOutput}</consoleOutput>
                    <configLocation>src/main/resources/checkstyle/myapp-checks.xml</configLocation>
                    <suppressionsLocation>src/main/resources/checkstyle/myapp-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>

…

Creating a Maven profile to compile using a different JDK version tutorial

Profiles are very handy in maven to use different JDK versions, include different files for different environments, etc.

Step 1: Say you have a pom.xml file using Java 7 to compile.

<properties> 
    <javac.src.version>1.7</javac.src.version>
    <javac.target.version>1.7</javac.target.version>
</properties> 

<plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>3.2</version>
      <configuration>
           <source>${javac.src.version}</source>
           <target>${javac.target.version}</target>
       </configuration>
</plugin>

…

Findbugs and Maven tutorial

Findbugs is an open source project for a static analysis of the Java bytecode to identify potential software bugs.

Step 1: The pom.xml with the findbug & site reporting plugins and properties.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.mytutorial</groupId>
    <artifactId>simpleSpringRestWeb</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <name>simpleSpringRestWeb</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <slf4j.version>1.7.10</slf4j.version>
        <commons-logging.version>1.1.1</commons-logging.version>
        <spring.version>4.0.9.RELEASE</spring.version>

        <javac.src.version>1.7</javac.src.version>

…

JMeter beginner tutorial

This tutorial performance test the RESTFul web service we created ealier as part of the “RESTful Web Service Tutorial with Apache CXF, Maven, and Eclipse” with JMeter. JMeter is an opensource performance testing tool.

Step 1: Download latest release version of Apache JMeter from “http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi“, and unzip it …

JMeter for performance testing REST services with BeanShell

This post extends 8 JMeter Performance testing Interview Q&As to cover JSON HTTP post. Now a days, a single page interactive web sites are very popular, and they post JSON based data back to the server to create a new record or to update an existing record. Step 1: Firstly,… …

Maven and Cobertura Tutorial

Cobertura is a free code coverage tool, which calculates the percentage of Java code accessed by unit tests.

Step 1: The pom.xml file with the relevant reporting plugins. The properties also shown to set the coverage percentage and to skip code coverage or not.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

…

Maven assembly & Shade plugins examples & uber jar creation

Maven assembly plugin is primarily intended to allow users to aggregate the project output along with its dependencies, modules, site documentation, and other files into a single distribution archive like zip, tar, tar.gz, war, etc. Another example where this is handy is to create deployable files for different environments like …

Maven assembly plugin examples

This extends the Maven assembly plugin with additional examples to create an assembly by controlling what artifacts get included in the archive.

Example 1: dev-assembly.xml

The datasource and properties files are packaged for DEV environment.


<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd">

    <id>dev</id>
    <baseDirectory>/</baseDirectory>
    <formats>
        <format>zip</format>
    </formats>
    <fileSets>
        <fileSet>
            <directory>${basedir}/src/config/dev/ds</directory>
            <outputDirectory>ds</outputDirectory>
            <includes>

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