Stanley Hillner

Der itemis Blog

Stanley Hillner was working as a software engineer and consultant at itemis in Leipzig. He was mainly focussing on CI/CD tasks as well as on the development of tools and applications for various branches.

Software Development

How to remove downloading messages from Maven log output

I think everyone of us knows these terrible log lines that blow up the Maven log output sometimes when you've cleared your local repository. Why does the artifact resolution write out the downloading procedure for every single artifact. This unneccessarily blows ...

by Stanley Hillner

Sep 22, 2017

9 min. reading time
Software Development

In a nutshell: Adding timestamps to Maven log output

One of the problems of long-running Maven builds is that there is no easy method to determine the runtimes of the individual plugin executions.

by Stanley Hillner

Sep 1, 2017

3 min. reading time
Continuous Integration

Releasing Maven Tycho Projects

Setting up Maven Tycho projects for building Eclipse plugins is not trivial and building releases from that setup is much more complicated than it sounds. If you are used to release your artifacts using the Maven Release Plugin you'll get quickly frustrated if you ...

by Stanley Hillner

Oct 31, 2016

3 min. reading time
Continuous Integration

Unleash your artifacts!

Software is not developed for its own sake, it is usually intended to be used by real customers and needs to be deployed to production systems. In order to assemble larger software compositions all the smaller artifacts that make up the product have to be released ...

by Stanley Hillner

Oct 21, 2016

9 min. reading time
Continuous Integration

CDI-based dependency injection for Maven Plugins

Developing Apache Maven plugins is pretty straight forward and well described in the Guide to Developing Java Plugins. Besides some drawbacks the development of simple plugins is not a pain. But when it comes to more complex Mojos with a larger number of ...

by Stanley Hillner

Sep 12, 2016

8 min. reading time

How to remove downloading messages from Maven log output

In a nutshell: Adding timestamps to Maven log output

Releasing Maven Tycho Projects

Unleash your artifacts!

CDI-based dependency injection for Maven Plugins