Software Engineer Notes (Ziv Birer blog)

mvn help:describe -Dcmd= phase   list lifecycle  phases  along with bound  goals   A Maven command like a single goal or a single phase following the Maven command line:    mvn [options] [ ] [ ]   mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help   Describe  plugin   mvn help:describe -Dmojo=describe   Describe  goal   Display brief information about the describe goal only   mvn help:describe -Dcmd=clean   Describe  lifecycle   Describe lifecycle and phases   mvn help:describe -Dcmd=compiler:compile   Describe  plugin goal   mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help  -Dminimal=true   Minimal description   Less information   mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help  -Ddetail   Full description   Extra information   mvn help:active-...

we had strange problem. Sometimes jenkins aborted maven jobs without reason.

In previous post I wrote how to write exclude file using findbugs GUI. Now there is a need to tell maven where is the exclude file.

findbugs   is important java tool for static code analysis. There is also maven  findbug plugin . The tool write XML report file. Sometimes, there is a need to exclude from the report some detected bug. findbugs can use  filter files  to include or exclude bugs. The maven plugin can use this files using  exclude property . There is simple way to generate that file:

maven is great build tool. I found it easier to learn about by first watching basic video tutorials.