A look at Maven 3 alpha

Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 +0200

We are all waiting for a stable release of Maven3 with following updates ..

faster, more performant .. save us time building our software and some precious memory ;)
improved artifact resolution api and plugin api
better osgi integration
a few bugfixes
no mixing of application dependencies and tooling dependencies
though it does not matter that much to me: polyglot features .. e.g.: “Writing your pom files in Groovy”
version-less parent elements for multi-module or multi-pom projects, no need to define the parent version in every submodule
better artifact resolution, which dependency or pom supplied which artifact to the outcome .. got that information from: “Splitter from the world of Java”

Create a SOAP client using the JAX-WS Maven Plugin

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0200

Having written the article “How to build a Confluence SOAP client in 5 minutes” some readers asked me for some more information and help using the JAX-WS plugin that I mentioned in the article instead of the Axis plugin – so here we go ;)

Steps

Create a simple maven project first using archetype:create or archetype:generate
```
mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.hascode.jaxws -DartifactId=soap-tutorial
```

We get a pom.xml like this:

<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 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.hascode.jaxws</groupId>
     <artifactId>soap-tutorial</artifactId>
     <version>0.1</version>
</project>

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A look at Maven 3 alpha

Create a SOAP client using the JAX-WS Maven Plugin

Steps