Apache Maven Dependency Management -- Table of Contents -- Apache Maven Dependency Management -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Basic Dependency Management -- Nomenclature -- Reminders on Maven origins -- Dependency -- Long and short designations -- Long designation -- Short designation -- Visualizing dependencies -- Transitive dependencies -- The concept of transitivity -- Resolution -- Exclusions -- Optional dependencies -- Parents/modules -- Parent POM -- Modules -- Version ranges -- Summary -- 2. Dependency Mechanism and Scopes -- Scopes -- Nomenclature of scope -- Compile -- Provided -- Runtime -- Test -- System -- Import -- Scope overlay rules (via transitive dependencies) -- The dependencyManagement tag -- First case study -- Second case study -- The import scope -- Modules and submodules (advanced) -- Maven Reactor -- Reactor sorting -- Reactor options and the Reactor plugin for Maven 2 -- Management of dependencies in folders -- The dependencies in their folders -- Nonarchive files -- Summary -- 3. Dependency Designation (advanced) -- The type tag -- The classic cases -- Creating a new packaging/type -- Case study -- The first step - Maven plugin -- The second step - call the plugin -- The Classifier -- The dependency plugin -- The analyze goal -- Classpath -- Other goals of dependency -- Other miscellaneous plugins -- The Enforce plugin -- The dependency convergence -- Banned dependencies -- Other rules -- Tattletale -- Dependencies -- Reports -- Archives.

Dependency, enforce, and tattletale - conclusion -- Dynamic POMs and dependencies -- Effective POM and settings -- Dynamic POM -- Case study -- A quick and dirty solution -- A clean solution -- With properties in command lines -- Profiles and settings -- Dynamic POMs - conclusion -- Summary -- 4. Migration of Dependencies to Apache Maven -- Case study -- Setting the folders -- Introducing Maven with standard libraries -- Available POM -- Unavailable POM -- Disclosing information from Manifest.MF -- Online tools -- Checksums -- Next steps -- Non-Maven standard libraries -- State -- Quick and (very) dirty -- (A bit) slower and (far) cleaner -- Summary -- 5. Tools within Your IDE -- Case study -- IntelliJ IDEA -- XML with XSD completion -- Module Dependency Graph -- Dependency addition -- Dependency addition from Java code -- Dependency search and generation within a POM -- Conclusion on IntelliJ IDEA -- Eclipse -- Dependency view -- Dependency Hierarchy view -- Effective POM view -- Maven Repository view -- Conclusion on Eclipse -- NetBeans -- Overview -- Dependency addition -- Summary -- 6. Release and Distribute -- Best practices before release -- Fixing conflicts with tier-parties -- Releasing the source code -- The Maven Release plugin -- Delivering artifacts and distributions -- Artifacts -- Release distribution -- A simple case -- Compiling both Java and Groovy sources -- A complex case -- Study case -- Following the process -- Conclusion -- Distribution management -- Summary -- A. Useful Public Repositories -- Maven Central -- iBiblio -- JavaNet -- JBoss -- CodeHaus -- Apache -- OSS Sonatype -- Index.