Tag Archives: How-To

How to share resources across projects in Maven


April 17, 2008 By Brian Fox

There are a few ways to share resources across multiple projects or modules:

In this blog I’ll show how to do the second option since in my opinion, it is currently the most stable and flexible. In the future, I’ll try out the maven-remote-resources-plugin and write up a tutorial. Continue reading

Maven 2.0.9 Released and information about plugin versions.


April 10, 2008 By Brian Fox

Maven 2.0.9 was released today. I previously blogged about the changes to the process that will hopefully lead to more stable releases in the future. Today I want to talk about some important changes in the release itself that improve the user experience a bit.

Probably the biggest and most anticipated change is the shift towards specifying default versions for the core set of plugins. Before I go further, lets have a background lesson on how Maven handles the plugins and why this was a pain point for some users. Continue reading