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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...