Re: Is there a way to make mvn default to Java 8?

2017-01-13 Thread Dean Schulze
why you want > shared company/team/product/buildenv parents. > > Gruss > Bernd > -- > http://bernd.eckenfels.net > > > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:51 PM +0100, "Dean Schulze" < > dean.w.schu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > &g

Is there a way to make mvn default to Java 8?

2017-01-13 Thread Dean Schulze
I would like to avoid having to add 1.8 1.8 to every pom.xml. Is there a global setting I can set in mvn to make Java 8 the default so I don't have to add this to every pom.xml?

Declaring a dependency for tools.jar

2011-01-24 Thread Dean Schulze
The FAQ shows the profile below to declare a dependency for tools.jar.  This seems to be a problem waiting to happen now that Oracle is the vendor for the official JVM.  (A recent update to JDK 1.6 caused problems for Eclipse because Eclipse was expecting a property setting of Sun Microsystems

Re: use of plugin and pluginmanagement

2011-01-18 Thread Dean Schulze
Hi Wayne, Here are my suggestions so far: Descriptions of what the various elements in a pom do (similar to the Ant documentation). Sequence diagrams for maven execution (typical cases) to show how POM elements affect the build. How do phases and goals relate to POM elements? Changes from

Re: use of plugin and pluginmanagement

2011-01-16 Thread Dean Schulze
Wayne, Thanks for your concise statement. I'm new to maven and have been trying to figure out how to use maven by reading the documentation.  What a quagmire. Maven documentation authors - please study Wayne's concise statement below.  That is what we need in the Maven documentation.  Not the

Re: Using profiles to control execution of a maven build (conditional execution)

2011-01-14 Thread Dean Schulze
if needed.  Profiles work great for that, but I can see exactly where the hydra head fits on the beast now and don't intend on doing anything more with them unless absolutely necessary. $0.02... On Jan 13, 2011, at 5:10 PM, Dean Schulze wrote:                 I need to modify the maven build

Using profiles to control execution of a maven build (conditional execution)

2011-01-13 Thread Dean Schulze
I need to modify the maven build for a large project to skip certain steps during typical development builds (i.e. don't build the *-source.jar files). I've searched for conditional execution for maven, but haven't found anything. A dev profile sounds like the intuitive way