Writing and maintaining Maven projects POM is boring. This parent POM is simplifying those tasks in the context of my open source projects by:

• defining common project and developer properties that can be easily overridden in a single place;
• defining a convenient set of configuration default (if you use GitHub, GitHub Actions, Sonatype OSSRH, Docker Hub).
• providing dependency and plugin management

How to use it?

Just inherit from it in your project :

<?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 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

	<parent>
		<groupId>fr.marcwrobel</groupId>
		<artifactId>parent</artifactId>
		<version>3.2.0</version>
		<relativePath/>
	</parent>

	<groupId>groupId</groupId>
	<artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
	<version>x.y.z-SNAPSHOT</version>

	<name>name</name>
	<description>description</description>
	<url>https://url.com</url>
	<inceptionYear>2020</inceptionYear>
	...
	<!-- only override if needed -->
	<properties>
		<this.java.version>1.8</this.java.version>
		<this.maven.version>3.8.5</this.maven.version>

		<dev.name>Marc Wrobel</dev.name>
		<dev.username>marcwrobel</dev.username>
		<dev.email>marc.wrobel@gmail.com</dev.email>
		<dev.url>http://www.marcwrobel.fr/</dev.url>
		...
	</properties>
</project>

All inherited information can be overridden, especially properties (take a look at this parent POM for an exhaustive list). Remember you can display the effective POM using maven-help-plugin in your project:

mvn help:effective-pom

You must also declare a maven-versions-rules.xml file at the root of your project.

What's included?

• default Maven configuration for organization, developers, scm, issueManagement, ciManagement, distributionManagement and defaultGoal,
• dependency management for dozens of libraries (Apache Commons, java extensions, Groovy, Spring, Hibernate to name a few),
• plugin management for cyclonedx-maven-plugin (the configuration should work in most situations),
• plugin management for flatten-maven-plugin (CI-friendly configuration),
• plugin management for git-commit-id-plugin (provided by spring-boot-starter-parent but non-verbose),
• plugin management for jacoco-maven-plugin (activation),
• plugin management for jib-maven-plugin (default from and to),
• plugin management for kotlin-maven-plugin (provided by spring-boot-starter-parent),
• plugin management for maven-compiler-plugin (provided by spring-boot-starter-parent),
• plugin management for maven-enforcer-plugin (activation and configuration rules for Java and Maven versions),
• plugin management for maven-failsafe-plugin (provided by spring-boot-starter-parent),
• plugin management for maven-release-plugin (change tagNameFormat).
• plugin management for spotless-maven-plugin (binding to the verify phase),
• plugin management and project configuration for sonar-maven-plugin,
• plugin management and project configuration for versions-maven-plugin,
• plugin management for spring-boot-maven-plugin (provided by spring-boot-starter-parent).
• a release profile, activated automatically during release with maven-release-plugin, which triggers :
  • sources attachment with maven-source-plugin,
  • javadoc attachment with [maven-javadoc-plugin,
  • a PGP signature with maven-gpg-plugin.
• an analyze profile, that must be activated manually, which triggers the jacoco agent during unit or integration tests in order to calculate code coverage for SonarQube.

The maven-enforcer-plugin is the only plugin activated by default.

Take a look at the POM for more information.

Why spring-boot-starter-parent?

This POM is inheriting from spring-boot-starter-parent in order to:

• take advantage of the Spring Boot team's work on dependencies (with spring-boot-dependencies);
• benefit from some good plugin management defaults.

Because this POM is relying so much on spring-boot-starter-parent its major and minor versions are also following those of Spring Boot.

Contribute

Take a look at the contribution guide.

Need help ?

Start a discussion, raise an issue or contribute with a pull-request (please take a look at the contribution guide before).

And for the things that must be kept private (only !), such as security issues, email me at marc.wrobel@gmail.com.