Sonatype Training - Maven Development Infrastructure Design

Course Description

Sonatype’s follow-up one-day training course on Maven, MVN-201, including sections on implementing consistent builds, site reporting, web development, code quality and test reports, repository management and continuous integration using Subversion, Nexus and Hudson.

Pre-requisites

• Maven Mechanics course attendance, or comfort with basic use of maven.
• A basic understanding of core dependencies and plugins is helpful.

Course Outline

Designing Development Infrastructure – Course Outline

Properties and Filters

• Defining Properties

• Using POM Variables

• The settings.xml file

• Properties from Java, external operating system

• Filters

• Including/Excluding Resources

Profiles

• Defining Profiles

• Activating Profiles

• Default Profiles

• Profile Inheritance

Maven Repositories

• Location

• Defining Repositories

• Snapshot Repositories

Consistent Builds

• Standardized Environment

• Explicit Use of Plugin Versions

• The Enforcer Plugin

Site Generation with Maven

• Maven Site as Collaboration Tool

• The Site Lifecycle

• Default Site Layout

• Creating a Site Project

• Organizing Your Site

• Adding Site Content

Site Reporting with Maven

• Technical Documentation

• Browsable Source Code

• Displaying Test Results

• Code Quality Metrics

Web Development

• Using the Maven Jetty Plugin

• Developing Web Applications with Maven

Repository Management

• What is an Enterprise Repository?

• Installing Nexus

• Using Nexus

• Nexus Repositories and Security

• Deploying to Nexus with Maven

• Managing Maven Settings with Nexus

• Enterprise Security (LDAP)

• Configuring Procurement in Nexus

• Performing a Staged Release

Release Management

• Release Management

• The Maven Release Plugin

• Developer Release Workflow

• Integration with Source Control

Continuous Integration with Hudson

• What is Continuous Integration?

• Benefits of Continuous Integration

• Downloading Hudson

• Installing Hudson

• Running Hudson

• Configuring Hudson for Maven

• Setting Up a Maven Job in Hudson

• Monitoring Hudson Builds

• Demonstration of Hudson