This post outlines the steps needed to simultaneously deploy to Maven repositories and to GitHub Releases. Every time a tagged commit is pushed, a Travis CI build will be triggered automatically and start the release process. This blog post uses Sonatype Nexus as an example for a Maven repository manager. Preparing GitHub Releases Sergey Mashkov has written a Maven plugin that allows us to create a new release on our project’s releases page and upload our build artifacts to a release.

tl;dr: When you are using Gerrit and Jenkins on the same machine, know what you’re doing! In a recent project we decided to increase code quality by introducing Gerrit as…

Suppose we voted for Sass as the css preprocessor of our choice for a web application. Knowing that css must be generated from our Sass code everytime a scss file…

In my previous post, I showed you the basic setup for android with maven using the android-maven-plugin. Now I’ll show you how to configure it to make releases with maven,…

Building and managing Android projects with maven is not as easy as it could be. So in this blog, I’ll show you how we managed to get it work nicely.…

Im Zuge meiner Bachelorarbeit habe ich ein Projekt von Maven 2 nach Maven 3 migriert. Dabei bin ich beim bauen des Projekts mit Maven 3 ein paar mal über eine…

Having a newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my machine, I noticed that building the OpenCms project I am currently working on is a very time consuming process: oli@rikit:~/develop/projects/foo$ time mvn…

More and more Projects at our company are taking advantage of distributed and local revision control by using git. So to make a complete software-project fit for git, by not…

Modern web applications often consist of quite some configuration files that should at least be tested for validity. Think of Spring controller configurations, web application descriptors and the like that…

I previously mentioned that setting up a development environment for OpenCms can be quite hard. Besides our Netbeans module we are using a custom maven plugin for some time now.…

Solr is a search server that bundles a lot of useful Lucene modules and provides an HTTP interface for querying and updating the data. The index and most of the…

Some days ago I came along a problem with our beloved build tool Maven2. Since this was the first real problem with the tool I could not solve or find…

Today i integrated the JSR303 reference implementation, which is Hibernate-Validator 4.x, into an existing JavaEE application. The application is built on Spring 3.0 and uses our Synyx Hades project, which…

I have just been fighting with the sql-maven-plugin while trying to import an OpenCms MySQL dump automatically. The module wasn’t really verbose with an error message: [ERROR] Failed to execute:…

When developing web apps with Maven the de facto standard for running the app is to use the excellent Maven Jetty Plugin which runs the project in an embedded Jetty…