Apache Maven Training Course

Overview

According to your profile Maven will help you in your day to day work. As we mention some of the benefits:

• Developers: As a developer you will be using Maven to create projects, manage the dependencies, compile your code, run your tests, deploy your components … Maven will become part of your every day development tools.

• Technical lead profiles: Integrating Maven as a build tool will have significant impact on the project: 

  • Managing dependencies will become easy (Maven dependency management)

  • Complex builds will be significantly simplified (Maven build profiles)

  • The project architecture will be managed smoothly (inheritance and multimodule projects)

  • ….

• Project Managers: Maven will enforce standardization and collaboration:

  • “Project Object Model” is the standard Maven introduces for projects

  • Maven uses build lifecycles for developers to compile, test and report, deploy

  • Maven repositories will act as a common store and gather releases and third party libraries

  • ….

• Release Managers: Maven repository managers will act as highly configurable proxies between your organization and public Maven repositories they also provide an organization with a deployment destination for your builds.

Course Outline

This course is a sequence of theory and hands on practice. A multimodule project is developed throughout the session and all the introduced concepts are apprehended by the graduates. 

• Introducing Maven

  • Why Maven o Maven’s objectives 

  • Key features

  • Comparing Maven and Ant 

• Eclipse IDE and Maven installation

• Getting started

  • Project specification

  • Creating the first modules

  • Project directory structure

• First concepts

  • Project coordinates

  • Maven repository

  • The POM

• Build Lifecycle, plugins and goals

  • Clean lifecycle

  • Default lifecycle

  • Site lifecycle

  • Package specific lifecycles

  • Common lifecycle goals

• Site generation

  • Building a project site

  • Customizing the site descriptor

  • Site directory structure

  • Project documentation

• Unit test and reports (Surefire Report Plugin)

  • Goals

  • Usage 

  • Using JUnit

• Dependencies

  • Maven's Dependency mechanism

  • Dependency Scope

  • Viewing Dependencies

  • Transitive Dependencies

  • Conflict resolution

  • Dependency management

• Properties

  • Maven properties

  • Project Properties

  • Settings properties

  • Environment variable properties

  • User defined properties

  • Resource filtering

• Build profiles

  • Build portability

  • Override a POM

  • Profile activation

  • External profiles

  • Settings profiles

• More about the POM

  • POM Inheritance

  • Multimodule projects

  • POM Best practices

•  Repository management

  • Nexus and the enterprise Repository

  • Using Nexus

  • Configuring Maven for Nexus

  • Nexus configuration

  • Repository operations

Requirements

Graduates must be comfortable with the Java language, the hands on practice will be carried out with the Eclipse IDE platform.