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Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. This is a tag for Maven related questions that are specific to Maven versions 2.x.

About Maven:

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

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How can I create an executable JAR with dependencies using Maven?

I want to package my project in a single executable JAR for distribution. How can I make a Maven project package all dependency JARs into my output JAR?
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How do I tell Maven to use the latest version of a dependency?

In Maven, dependencies are usually set up like this: wonderful-inc dream-library 1.2.3 Now, if you are working with libraries that have frequent…
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Can I add jars to Maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

Maven 2 is driving me crazy during the experimentation / quick and dirty mock-up phase of development. I have a pom.xml file that defines the dependencies for the web-app framework I want to use, and I can quickly generate starter projects from that…
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Run a single test method with maven

I know you can run all the tests in a certain class using: mvn test -Dtest=classname But I want to run an individual method and -Dtest=classname.methodname doesn't seem to work.
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Maven Modules + Building a Single Specific Module

I have a multi-module Maven project with a parent project P and three sub-modules A, B, and C. Both B and C are war projects and both depend on A. I can type mvn compile in P and have all of the sub-modules properly compiled. The problem comes…
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How to configure encoding in Maven?

When I run maven install on my multi module maven project I always get the following output: [WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent! So, I googled around a bit, but all I can find…
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Including dependencies in a jar with Maven

Is there a way to force maven(2.0.9) to include all the dependencies in a single jar file? I have a project the builds into a single jar file. I want the classes from dependencies to be copied into the jar as well. Update: I know that I cant just…
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Maven artifact and groupId naming

I'm currently in the process of moving some project from Ant to Maven. Conformist as I am, I want to use well-established conventions for finding groupId and artifactId, but I can't find any detailed conventions (there are some, but they don't cover…
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Maven command to determine which settings.xml file Maven is using

How do I use maven command line to determine which settings.xml file Maven is picking up?
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Find Oracle JDBC driver in Maven repository

I want to add the oracle jdbc driver to my project as dependency (runtime scope) - ojdbc14. In MVNrepository site the dependency to put in the POM is: com.oracle ojdbc14 …
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Is there a simple way to remove unused dependencies from a maven pom.xml?

I have a large Maven project with many modules and many pom.xml files. The project has changed and I suspect the pom's contain some unnecessary dependencies. Is there is a command which removes any unused dependencies from a pom?
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Maven: Command to update repository after adding dependency to POM

I've added a new dependency to my POM. Is there a simple command I can run to download this dependency to my repository?
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Maven parent pom vs modules pom

There seem to be several ways to structure parent poms in a multiproject build and I wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what the advantages / drawbacks are in each way. The simplest method of having a parent pom would be putting it in the root…
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Retrieve version from maven pom.xml in code

What is the simplest way to retrieve version number from maven's pom.xml in code, i.e., programatically?
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run main class of Maven project

I've created a simple console Java application that is built with Maven. Is there a way that the main class (which doesn't require any arguments) can be run from the command-line using a maven command like: mvn run-app com.example.MainClass
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