Sonatype, the chief commercial supporter of the open-source Maven project, is working with Oracle to bring Java.net project artifacts to the Maven Central Repository, which the company administers for ...

Maven is a popular open source build tool for enterprise Java projects, designed to take much of the hard work out of the build process. Maven uses a declarative approach, where the project structure ...

Traditional Java applications capture runtime variables in property files, then package them into individual JARs for various software environments. But for users of Maven, it could make better sense ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. While at various conference sessions, or as a participant in development workshops, one of the ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Many managers, when deciding to transition from .NET to Java, often carry the inherent belief that "Java's ecosystem is mature, and the talent pool is large," but overlook the essential technical ...