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Apache Maven Masterclass

Basics
20
seats
German
From
2026-12-14
with
Sandra Parsick
,
Online

Training objectives

  • You want to know how it works under the hood.
  • You are dissatisfied with your build and want to learn about optimization options.
  • Here you will learn which tasks Maven is well suited for and which it is not.
  • You have complex testing and quality assurance processes and want to improve them.
  • Learn about and appreciate the advantages of the optionated Maven build in terms of comprehensibility and maintainability, especially if other build tools seem easier at first glance.

Curriculum

Day 1 and 2

  • What distinguishes Maven from Ant and Gradle?
  • What should you avoid doing with Maven (and what alternatives are there)?
  • Developer experience when using Maven
    • Installation (central vs. project-specific, aka Maven Wrapper)
    • Execution
    • Integration with IDE using IntelliJ IDEA as an example
  • How does Maven work under the hood?
    • Definition of terms: plugin, extension, dependency, POM, lifecycle
    • Initial concepts: build lifecycle (default)
  • Simple project organization
    • Convention over configuration
    • Source code organization
    • Your minimal POM
    • Packaging - Lifecycle mapping
    • Principle of the super POM (convention)
    • If the convention does not fit exactly, then specify it (properties)
    • Why should you not (initially) disregard the convention?
  • Dependency Management
    • GAV - Coordinates in conjunction with a Maven repository
    • Maven Central
    • How to find your dependencies (web search and ‘mcs’)?
    • Scopes
    • Transitive dependencies
    • How does Maven build the classpath based on dependencies?
    • What impact does this have on the class loader?
    • Dependency management (BOM, troubleshooting in the dependency jungle)
  • Maven plugins
    • Concept deep dive
    • Interaction with lifecycle
    • Default plugins from the lifecycle and packaging
    • Plugins vs. plugin management
    • Typical use cases and corresponding plugins (overview)
    • Plugins for testing and quality assurance of the project
    • Direct code analysis (PMD, spotbug)
    • Code style
    • Technical test execution and integration tests including coverage (JaCoCo)
    • Quality assurance for the build setup
    • Troubleshooting in the build process
  • More complex project structures
    • Multi-module projects
    • Build: Parent POM vs Reactor POM
  • How can shared dependencies be managed?
    • Dependencies: Parent POM and dependency management
    • Dependency management as a bill of materials (BOM)
    • Creating your own BOM (multiple scenarios)
    • Building and consuming your own artifacts (snapshot vs. release)
  • Management and publication of build artifacts in the corporate environment
    • Release process
    • Maven profiles
    • Your own snapshot repository
    • Mirroring of Maven Central and other global repositories
    • Security aspects of external Maven artifacts

Day 3

  • Continuous integration with Maven
    • Parallel builds and branching
    • (Remote) caching and other ways to speed up the build
    • Publishing SNAPSHOTs
    • Project versioning
    • Continuous delivery and deployment
    • Building and testing with containers
    • Best practices for widely used build servers (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
  • When Maven can’t do something (well)
    • Start external programs
    • Run scripts
    • Use extensions
    • Create your own plugins and, if necessary, extensions
  • Monitor and evaluate quality over time
    • Code analysis and test coverage: SonarQube
    • Security
    • Runtime measurements (how long does my build take)
    • Load and performance tests of the project
  • Maven 4 - New features
    • Build POM vs. Consumer POM
    • New wording
    • Automating upgrades
    • BOMs as packaging
    • Optimizations in dependency management
    • Building newer JDKs (>= 17) as Maven runtime while still building “old” projects

Trainers

Sandra Parsick

Freelance Software Developer and Consultant

Main Skills

Java Enterprise, cloud technologies, Maven

Apache Maven Masterclass (online) - Sandra Parsick - German - date confirmed

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