Tag Archives: Maven

How to Change Maven Offline Mode

By Steve Jin | Published: June 30, 2015

Maven is a great tool when it works; otherwise it’s pretty hard to figure out what’s happening and how to fix problems. Instead of detailing steps to get something done, the Maven philosophy is to let developers to pick what they want. For the common use cases that fit in its convention, Maven is pretty easy. In general, Maven is easy to start, and hard to customize.  Read more...

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How to Run Maven Based Java Application From Command Line

By Steve Jin | Published: October 28, 2013

It’s pretty straight forward to run Maven based projects in NetBeans IDE. For some projects that involve console related capabilities, you have to run it from OS console. One example is projects that use the JANSI APIs for colorful console output (see my last post for a sample). If you run the code within IDE, you won’t see the colors as would in a console.  Read more...

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How to Add Copyright Notice in JavaDoc

By Steve Jin | Published: October 8, 2013

While using Netbeans IDE to generate Javadoc for a Maven project, I noticed the generated pages has a default copyright notice at the bottom of every page, say “Copyright 2013. All Rights Reserved.” Because it’s default, it does not show the name of copyright owner. To change it, I found it’s not really straight-forward, therefore it may be worthwhile to share it.  Read more...

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Maven Again

By Steve Jin | Published: November 4, 2011

Because my new team at VCE uses Maven, I just picked it up again. Last time I used it was when I helped to port the CloudTools to vSphere for the CloudFoundry demo for VMworld 2009 keynotes. Because the project founder Chris Richardson had chosen Maven, I just followed his footsteps forward. After that, I didn’t use Maven.  Read more...

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