Pomade

Pomade is a Maven parent pom offering à la carte selection of common dependency groups and build profiles. Use Pomade as the parent of your next Maven project and start coding faster!

Features

• Select from predefined dependency collections for commonly used Java libraries:
  • SLF4J with Logback
  • Hibernate with Ehcache and c3p0
  • Favorite Apache Commons projects
• Measure and enforce minimum unit test coverage with Jacoco.
• Execute JUnit tests in parallel.
• Build -sources.jar and -javadoc.jar artifacts during the package phase of your build.
• Sign artifacts during the verify phase of your build.
• Enforce Maven best practices like explicit plugin versions, specific Java version, etc.

Quick Start

Declare Pomade as your parent pom:

<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>
    
    <!-- inherit from Pomade -->
    <parent>
        <groupId>net.big-oh</groupId>
        <artifactId>pomade</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </parent>
    
    <!-- describe your project -->
    <groupId>foo.bar</groupId>
    <artifactId>baz</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</project>

Select one or more dependency groups to be used by your project:

$ mkdir src/pomade
$ touch src/pomade/use.slf4j
$ touch src/pomade/use.hibernate
$ touch src/pomade/use.h2
$ touch src/pomade/use.commons