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20+ Maven Interview Questions and answers. You must prepare for 2021

February 20, 2023 ·  5 min read

This tutorial covers interview questions and answers for java developers. This was also useful for experienced persons as well as for DevOps engineers. You can check my other posts on maven commands Contents What is Maven?. Why it is used for? How to know the maven version using the command line What are the different build phases/goals of a maven project? What are things we can do with maven? How do you create a war file using maven?...

3 ways to debug maven build: maven debug tutorials

February 20, 2023 ·  4 min read

Maven is an automated build project management tool that automates the build process by defining all the dependencies in pom.xml. Developers encounter a lot of issues while building and running a maven project in the development phase as well as the release phase. This article explains multiple ways how to debug any issues with maven build. You can check my other posts on maven commands There are many ways to debug a maven project....

Best tutorial for Maven settings file | Sample mvn settings.xml example

February 20, 2023 ·  5 min read

A maven is a build tool for Java projects. Most of the developers have used maven over ant these days because maven resolves their dependencies. Contents What is the maven settings.xml file? What are user and global settings XML file Location what is a repository in Maven What is a mirror in settings.xml of maven? Settings.xml sample example file How to find which settings.xml file is used? How to read the maven settings file in java projects?...

Difference between package and install command in maven

February 20, 2023 ·  2 min read

It is a short tutorial on the Difference between the package and install commands in maven. You can check my other posts on maven commands. clean, package, and install are the goal phases of the maven life cycle. Before that first understand the maven life cycle goals on the order execution. maven default life cycle goals execution order validate: validate checks all the valid information of a maven application compile: Compile source code into class files i....

How to add local jar files to maven projects

February 20, 2023 ·  2 min read

We are going to learn how to install a local jar repository. By default, Maven installs the dependencies from the maven remote repository or nexus repository. Sometimes, we need to install the jar files from the local repository or lib folder, or custom path folder. There are multiple ways we can install local dependencies into maven projects. maven install:install-file command Adding local dependencies systemPath in pom.xml Adding local repository How to install jar file to the local repository with commandline install-file goal is a maven commands used to install local jar files...

How to add maven compiler plugin in java project

February 20, 2023 ·  6 min read

This post talks about adding maven compiler plugin dependency to projects with pom.xml, Contents What is the Maven compiler plugin? What is the Maven compiler version? How do I download a Maven compiler plugin? What is the use of Maven compiler source and target? What is the latest version of the Maven compiler plugin? How to change compiler options in pom.xml How to get the maven compiler Plugin help maven compiler compile goal example maven compiler Plugin Configuration Options Plugin configuration usage examples How to configure different java paths and compiler versions for the plugin?...

How to configure Character Encoding in Maven

February 20, 2023 ·  3 min read

Sometimes, java files compiling with maven or building war files get encoding errors as described below. File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent! maven character encoding source not working maven read the source code for building and installing artifacts, So It should define the character encoding to read and write files of different encoding types- ASCII, UTF-8, or UTF-16 maven uses default encoding of the running platform, i....

How to copy files to target build directory in maven?

February 20, 2023 ·  2 min read

This is a short tutorial on how to copy property files from an input directory to the target build directory in maven. Maven creates the [standard directory structure] (/2011/12/maven-project-structure.html) for an application. You can check my other posts on maven commands Default resources files are located in the `src/main/resources folder. which will be copied to target/classes during build and WEB-INF/classes in war file generation When you are packaging the project, these properties are automatically copied to the target folder....

How to create maven project with command line with example| Eclipse | Intelli

February 20, 2023 ·  5 min read

Maven is a build tool for java projects. It speeds up the java development build process. maven is one of the Java tools for continuous build integration. Maven has predefined phases or goals. The goals are similar to ant targets. the developer will invoke goals to do their tasks. You can check my other posts on maven commands. First, Please make sure that you download maven from the Apache software and install it....

How to force update dependencies Commandline eclipse Intelli

February 20, 2023 ·  2 min read

This post describes how to do the command line and Eclipse to force snapshot and release dependencies in a Maven project. During development, maven do installation by downloading all snapshot and releasing dependencies for the first time. Build fails the reason of not downloading some of its dependencies. The reason might be not downloading the dependencies completely because of network latency issues. Maven downloads the repositories from remote repositories like maven central or nexus....

How to install maven on Windows and Linux/Unix

February 20, 2023 ·  2 min read

Maven is a java-based project build tool that automates the build process. To install Maven on any platform, you’ll need a Java development environment. Before installing maven, make sure you have the most recent JDK version installed. You can check my other posts on maven commands Install and setup maven on local windows Download maven software from the apache site and extract the files, copy it to a local drive example D:\java\apache-maven-3....

Learn Maven tutorial | Maven examples

February 20, 2023 ·  1 min read

Maven tutorials and examples This post is an index page for maven Tutorials. Maven is a project management tool that automates the build process for Java applications. Maven is based on project object model configuration, and contains all the plugins configured in the XML file - pom.xml. Following are the different posts about the maven tool. Maven Installation and Setup Maven Dependency Example Generate Maven Project from Scratch Maven Interview questions Maven Setting....

maven assembly plugin example with a tutorial in maven

February 20, 2023 ·  3 min read

Maven is a project build management tool that automates the build phase of any java project. whenever the project is built, it creates single modules with the format of jar or war. so it builds zip your project includes configuration files and other XML files into different customized output module types like zip, jar, war, and other tar.gz formats. As you know the maven-war plugin generates only war files, but in the projects, you need to archive them in different formats like zipped formats, in that case, we will use this plugin....

Maven Clirr plugin example: maven3 plugins tutorials

February 20, 2023 ·  2 min read

This tutorial covers Clirr Maven Plugin, configure and generate report tutorial with examples. Maven Clirr plugin is used to report on your current project by comparing it with another same old project. If we configured this plugin to your project, it checks your project jar with an older version jar that is configured in pom.xml to compare. This plugin is to compare the source code as well as jar comparisons for incompatible issues to find in the early stage of any module before releasing the module....

Maven dependency example explained

February 20, 2023 ·  3 min read

Maven is a project build tool for java and android applications. One of the features of Maven over ant tool is dependencies management for software projects. When you are using maven in your project, you need to define the dependencies in pom.xml. Once the dependencies have been configured, they will be downloaded from repositories to your local machine. When installing with Maven, you must use the dependency plugin to configure the dependencies, which manipulates the artifacts....

Multiple ways to skip test case execution in maven project with example

February 20, 2023 ·  1 min read

When maven projects trying to package jar or war file, It compiles test classes execution by default. This tutorial explains multiple ways to disable test case execution in maven projects. maven package It compiles java and test source files, executes test files, and packages the source code as per configured module. Maven skip test case execution There are multiple ways to disable test case execution using command line Maven has below JVM command line arguments to mvn command....

Top 20 Maven Commands list | cheatsheet

February 20, 2023 ·  6 min read

Maven is a build automation project management tool in java projects. Most of the people working on java related technologies know about the maven usage. It uses the pom.xml file to manage build dependencies. pom.xml is a project object model that contains dependencies, java version, and plugin information. it is used to compile and build the project. Maven execution runs with the build life cycle such as compiling, executing, testing and packaging java projects....

Understand versions maven plugin basics with examples

February 20, 2023 ·  4 min read

versions-maven-plugin basics Versions Maven Plugin is a plugin in the maven project used to update the versions of the application/artifact of a project. Each artifact is a single module that has a dependency on other artifacts. Always Latest versions are stable with fixing bugs. This has advantages to checking the latest versions of dependencies as well as parent dependencies. Keeping and managing this version is a tedious task for a developer....

Different ways to Fix OutOfMemoryError Gradle| Solution in Android studio

January 14, 2023 ·  3 min read

Gradle is a build management tool for java and android projects. Usually, javalangoutofmemoryerror comes running an android application for the following tasks. Building phase compile phase Package phase Loading app in Android studio Starting Android studio application Did you get the below errors while compiling the android project? java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Perm Gen space java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded The system is out of resources What is the reason for java....

How to fix OutOfMemoryError issue in Maven| Perm Gen space |Java heap space

February 28, 2022 ·  3 min read

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError in maven Maven is an automated build project management tool. if the project has 10000 or more java files and you try to build the project using “maven clean install”, the build failed with an error - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError. maven clean install will try to clean/delete the project and compile the project, test the project, and build the application. OutOfMemoryError issues occur either in the compile phase of your project or test phase of your project while building your maven project...