GitHub Release Pipeline for Java

Goals Set up Maven build pipeline for a Java 11 app Release Maven artifact on GitHub using GitHub actions Setup Maven Assuming that we have a project named sample-app released for my hascode GitHub account: We’re adding some release information to our project’s pom.xml: pom.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.hascode</groupId> <artifactId>sample-app</artifactId> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>bookmark-manager <name>sample-app</name> <description>hasCode.com Bookmark Manager</description> <scm> <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/hascode/sample-app.git </developerConnection> </scm> <distributionManagement> <repository> <id>github</id> <name>GitHub</name> <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/hascode/sample-app</url> </repository> </distributionManagement> <properties> <java.version>11</java.version> <project.scm.id>github</project.scm.id> </properties> [..] </project> ...

May 14, 2021 · 2 min · 398 words · Micha Kops

Prettier Code Formatter Configuration

Goals Setup Prettier for different environments / IDEs Run Prettier via git hooks Install Prettier Install via npm npm install --save-dev --save-exact prettier Add empty configuration file echo {}> .prettierrc.json Create Prettier ignore file .prettierignore: # Ignore artifacts: build coverage Format all project files with Prettier: npx prettier --write . Git Hooks Adding the following lines to the project’s package-json makes ESLint and Prettier run before each commit: { "husky": { "hooks": { "pre-commit": "lint-staged" } }, "lint-staged": { "**/*": "prettier --write --ignore-unknown" } } ...

May 14, 2021 · 1 min · 90 words · Micha Kops

Continuous Deployment using GlassFish, Jenkins, Maven and Git

Recently I needed a quick solution to deploy a Java EE 6 web application on a GlassFish instance automatically and subsequent to a successful build of the project on the integration server. It took only a few steps using Jenkins, Maven and the Cargo plugin and I’d like to share this quick solution with you here. Prerequisites We need the following software installed and configured: Git Jenkins / Hudson + Git Plugin installed Maven 3 GlassFish 3.1 JDK 7 ...

May 29, 2013 · 6 min · 1202 words · Micha Kops

Creating Pre-Commit-Hooks in Git and Mercurial: Prefix Commit Messages for Feature/Story Branches

Managing my projects’ source code I am using Git also as Mercurial. Therefore I often encounter the situation where I am creating a special branch to implement a specific user story or feature request. Now when working on such a story branch I often enter the issue-key or a short title as a prefix for each commit message. Doing this by manually is a waste of time and error-prone and luckily for us, each of both DVCS offers us an easy API to add custom hooks to the different life-cycle events. ...

December 16, 2012 · 4 min · 784 words · Micha Kops

Git Snippets

Show commits from another branch not contained in current branch git cherry -v otherbranch + f7d6a569bb6912aac97fce9ac92c4302863fb0d9 thecommit Create empty commit sometimes necessary for build/deploy pipelines …​ git commit --allow-empty -m "Empty-Commit" Cherry pick without commit git cherry-pick -n HASH Using vimdiff for diff set it via git config git config --global diff.tool vimdiff git config --global merge.tool vimdiff set it via ~/.gitconfig [diff] tool = vimdiff [merge] tool = vimdiff Using vscode as diff and mergetool You need to have the shell integration installed (code binary in PATH) ...

March 1, 2010 · 4 min · 841 words · Micha Kops

GitHub Snippets

GitHub Actions Step to check variables and redistribute as env The following step does .. check of given variables are set, if not, exit with an error that is visible in the action’s log provide the given input as environment variable in GITHUB_ENV - name: configuration env: VAR1: ${{ needs.configure.outputs.something }} VAR2: ${{ vars.SOMETHING_OTHER }}/ VAR3: "something_other_other" run: | for var in VAR1 VAR2 VAR3; do [ -n "${!var}" ] || { echo "$var is missing"; exit 1; }; echo "$var=${!var}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"; done ...

March 1, 2010 · 1 min · 189 words · Micha Kops

GitLab Snippets

Generate AsciiDoc Documentation and Publish it with GitLab Pages We setup a repository and add a directory named docs there .. this is the home of our AsciiDoc files. We’re using asciidoctor/docker-asciidoctor as Docker image for tool provisioning This is the .gitlab-ci.yml, we’re running the stage only when something in the docs directory has changed. stages: - "Build docs" # The name of the job activates the GitLab pages publication pages: image: asciidoctor/docker-asciidoctor stage: "Build docs" tags: - build script: - sh ./gen_docs.sh - mv output public only: refs: - master changes: - /docs/* artifacts: paths: - public expose_as: 'Documentation Archive' ...

March 1, 2010 · 1 min · 186 words · Micha Kops

Maven Snippets

Extract Coordinates from the POM Helpful for build and integration environments, pipelines etc. Exctract the Project version from the pom.xml mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:3.1.0:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version -q -DforceStdout Override a Property via local configuration e.g. to override the property xxx from your project’s pom.xml Create a directory .mvn in your project directory root Create a file named maven.config in this directory Insert -Dxxx=newvalue into the file to override this property Don’t forget to add .mvn to your .gitignore! ...

March 1, 2010 · 3 min · 514 words · Micha Kops