Re: Dependencies - need help/advice: Getting the latest version of a specific (not all) dependencies

2022-09-23 Thread Bruno Melloni
First, you are right... I misread.  When I look at the maven plugins in pluginManagement I see v2 and v3:  clean=3.1.0, compiler=3.8.1, surefire=2.22.1, jar=3.0.2, install=2.5.2, deploy=2.8.2, site=3.7.1, project-info-reports=3.0.0.  Still, it is > 2.0 so LATEST is no longer supported as a

Maven Book recommendation

2022-01-27 Thread Bruno Melloni
It became very clear to me that my current approach of googling tutorials, guides and solutions is a wildly inadequate approach to learn Maven.  Mainly because all of those are either far too basic for "real life" projects, or because they assume prior knowledge that I don't yet have. So, I

SOLVED: Strange ClassCastException during maven install

2022-01-25 Thread Bruno Melloni
:33 AM, Bruno Melloni wrote: I wrote and used a custom library that includes some log4j aware classes.  Was working perfectly when built as a standard Java JAR.  I am converting the POM to rely on a few Spring Boot starters as a way to simplify it. All went well until I run "Maven In

Strange ClassCastException during maven install

2022-01-25 Thread Bruno Melloni
I wrote and used a custom library that includes some log4j aware classes.  Was working perfectly when built as a standard Java JAR.  I am converting the POM to rely on a few Spring Boot starters as a way to simplify it. All went well until I run "Maven Install", when I got the following

Dumb question: How to deploy a command line app?

2021-09-23 Thread Bruno Melloni
Given that the whole point of using Maven is to "not have to worry about dependencies" I am having the most ironic (and probably trivial) problem: - Using Maven in Eclipse. - I wrote a very simple utility.  It builds as part of a JAR that will normally be used by other apps, but this utility