How-To write and document a Maven Plugin

"Maven is - at its heart - a plugin execution framework; all work is done by plugins."

This quote is the start of the Maven Plugins documentation. Thus, if you want to customize your Maven build project you should think about using a special plugin. If no plugin for your task is available you have the possibility to write your own.

Moving a Maven artifact to new coordinates

Sometimes it can be necessary to move a Maven artifact to new project coordinates (groupId, artifactId, version). Fortunatly Maven does supports this use case.

How To Read A Maven Plugin Documentation

I recently came along a tutorial that describes "How to skip Maven unit test example". The author certainly had the best intentions - but finally he messed things up. This would not have happend if he had a look at the plugin documentation. If you once understand how to read it - plugin usage will be simple.

Interesting Software News (in my view)

The technologie and tool stack I work with was heavily updated in 2013. This post is a quick overview of the most important technologies (primarily Java) and tools (primarily IDE) changes that happend this year.

Beside these there are some interesting announcements that I like to share and I also want to mention some smaller tools that I use more or less often and that also might be useful for someone else.