Originally the parent POM handled very little, and the components had
to do much more.
Component POMs had to define settings for plugins such as Cobertura.
Swapping from Cobertura to JaCoCo thus entails more work for
components that started using Cobertura before the parent was updated.
The
I still don't get why I need to (re)configure so many plugins in JEXL's pom -
any explanation is still welcome - but I managed to switch to Jacoco and
Spotbugs. Fighting with maven is always a tad tedious and I still fear trying
to release... Migrating to Java 8 code can now resume.
A recent commit in the code line (no pr btw) broke JEXL site's generation
ability since Cobertura does not support Java 8 lambda constructs. I've thus
been trying to switch to Jacoco as the coverage tool.
I've removed the cobertura.profile, added the jacoco.profile in the conf dir,
removed all
