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Maven offers a good set of commands and CLI Options to carry out wide range of Dev tasks. Most of these commands are in fact Maven build life cycles, phases and goals. Here is a list of common Maven commands along with explanation. But before we go through the Maven...

Maven’s Sequential Execution In Maven, you have the option of executing a build phase or build goal. But unlike build goals, which can be called and executed individually, Maven follows a sequential or hierarchical order of execution for build phases. For example, if you run a phase that is at...

Maven offers a good set of commands and CLI Options to carry out wide range of Dev tasks. Most of these commands are in fact Maven build life cycles, phases and goals. Here is a list of common Maven commands along with explanation. But before we go through the Maven...

Maven Basics Maven automates the steps involved in building a software application like adding the JAR files, compiling code, running unit tests, creating the output jar/war file, etc. This makes the code less error-prone. Maven uses an XML configuration file known as the POM file. Developers need to specify information...

Maven is a very popular build and dependency management tool. Eclipse is an IDE that helps developers write and run Java code easily. In this article, I will be explaining how you can create a Maven project in Eclipse. Maven Basics Maven automates the steps involved in building a software application...

1. What is Maven Compiler Plugin The ‘Maven Compiler Plugin’ or more commonly known as 'Maven Java Compiler' is used to compile the source code of your project/application. Internally this plugin uses the standard 'javac' compiler (JDK) and as of version 3.0 of this plugin the default compiler is javax.tools.JavaCompiler Unlike...

Maven project can be easily created using built-in plugins from the popular IDEs such as Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA. However, in scenarios where you don't or cannot use IDE, we can also create a maven project from the Maven native command line without using any IDE. In this article...

Design patterns Overview Design patterns are basically solutions to programming problems that developers normally encounter during software development. Design patterns were first documented by four authors known as the Gang of Four (GoF). Design patterns are broadly classified into creational, structural, and behavioral patterns. Creational patterns aid in object creation,...

Hibernate is an ORM framework that helps in accessing database tables from Java code. It is an object-oriented way of accessing database tables and it eliminates boilerplate code that is required with JDBC. In this article, I will be explaining how you can create a basic Hibernate application that...

1. What is Maven When you write a software application, there are many steps in it like adding the necessary JAR files, compiling the source code, running unit tests, creating the output jar/war file, etc. This is where Maven comes into play, it automates the build process, dependency management, testing,...

Introduction Hibernate is a framework which allows you to access database tables from Java code. Before Hibernate came into existence, JDBC was widely used. JDBC is an API to access a relational database from a java program. JDBC basically allows you to execute SQL statements from Java code, so any...