Category Archives: maven

CPD with maven2 and PMD

Detecting copy/pasted code is a useful technique to find potential buggy code. Duplicated code often results in bugs being fixed in only one version of the copied code. PMD is a great sourcecode analysis tool which integrates nicely with maven … Continue reading

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multiproject maven2: getting the site to work

When generating a project site for a multiproject setup as described in my previous post many people run into the same problem. The links to the different modules don’t work when you use the ‘site:site’ target. A couple of solutions … Continue reading

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Getting started with multiproject maven2

I’m helping a group of students to split up their codebase into a couple of manageable project using maven2 as the build tool. Their existing project is a layered Spring MVC web application. The following layers are present: data model … Continue reading

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Maven2 plugin for Eclipse

Over a year ago I tried working with the maven2 plugin for eclipse. After trying some of the nifty features, like a search dialog for dependencies, I was totally fed up by the amount of resources needed by the plugin; … Continue reading

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