Introducing Maven

1h 36mIntermediate2019-04-30

Authors

Frank P Moley III

Senior Principal Engineer at Catch&Release

Course details

Apache Maven is a powerful build system used by thousands of Java developers on enterprise, freelance, and open-source projects. But it can do so much more. This course focuses on the basics of using Maven for dependency management, builds, and reporting. Instructor Frank Moley starts with the foundations: the project object model (POM) and POM elements, including properties and dependencies. He then reviews the build life cycle, showing how to leverage the Core and Tools plugins to automate tasks like cleanup and compile. He also shows how to manage dependencies, including creating uber JAR files to package executables with their dependencies. Finally, he covers reporting with Maven sites and popular plugins. By the end of the course, you should be familiar enough with Maven to use it to meet the needs of almost any Java project, from simple components to unique customized builds.

Learning objectives
Exploring POM files
The build life cycle
Using build plugins
Dependency management with Maven
Maven reporting
Working with Maven sites

Skills covered

MavenApacheDevOps ToolsJavaOracleDevOpsLearning

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Building Java the Maven way
02 - What you need to know

1. Maven Basics

03 - Introduction to Apache Maven
04 - The Java project structure
05 - The POM file
06 - POM properties
07 - Dependencies
08 - Build
09 - Reporting
10 - Reactors and parents
11 - Understanding archetypes

2. Build

12 - Introduction to the build lifecycle
13 - Leveraging build plugins
14 - Core plugins
15 - Tools plugins
16 - Packaging plugins

3. Dependencies

17 - Scope
18 - Transitive dependencies
19 - Dependency management
20 - Dependency goals
21 - Uber JARs

4. Reporting

22 - Maven sites
23 - Site look and feel
24 - Common reporting plugins

Conclusion

25 - Next steps