Mvn Config
Maven per-project settings
As seen on SKDMan Install and SDKMan Advance Config, often a project has specific requirements.
As a developer, if I wrote more than two times the same command, I try to find a way to automate that process.
Talking about Maven, in a development environment, where we always have to pass the same parameters. In this case the “Maven common configs” file comes to help.
Create .mvn folder and maven.config file
In your root project directory create another directory named “.mvn” .
mkdir .mvn
Crate a brand-new file maven.config
touch .mvn/maven.config
Set a specific settings.xml
For example, if you want set a per-project specific settings.xml file
-s /home/<userName>/.m2/settings_custom.xml
Set a specific repository dir
…per-project specific repository dir file. Very useful if your project points to a dedicated Nexus for his dependencies.
-Dmaven.repo.local=/home/<userName>/.m2/repository_custom
Set a default externals env variables
-DenvVariable=local -DanotherProperties.name=local.properties
Put all together
-s /home/<userName>/.m2/settings_custom.xml -Dmaven.repo.local=/home/<userName>/.m2/repository_custom -DenvVariable=local -DanotherProperties.name=local.properties
Test it
Try to run a simply mvn clean and see all the default arguments passed to the mvn command.
See you for the next Dev Tips!
Enjoy, Djacomo
Disclaimer: I’m Italian, so sorry for my bad English!