The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the Webstart Maven Plugin version 1.0-beta-6

The Webstart Maven Plugin generates application bundles that can be deployed via Web Start. The plugin can be used to prepare standalone Web Start applications or Web Start applications bundled in WAR files (with or without …

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the WAS6 Maven Plugin version 1.2.1.

This plugin works along with an installation of WebSphere Application Server (standalone or ND), to provide automated tasks for: generating RMIC stubs, starting/stopping servers, installing/updating/uninstalling EARs to application …

The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of Mojo´s SQLJ Maven Plugin version 1.3.

To get this update, simply specify the version in your project´s plugin configuration:

1<plugin>
2      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
3      <artifactId>sqlj-maven-plugin</artifactId>
4 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven SCM Plugin, version 1.9.

The SCM Plugin offers vendor independent access to common scm commands by offering a set of command mappings for the configured scm.

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

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The Mojo team is pleased to announce the release of the Webstart Maven Plugin version 1.0-beta-5

The Webstart Maven Plugin generates application bundles that can be deployed via Web Start. The plugin can be used to prepare standalone Web Start applications or Web Start applications bundled in WAR files (with or without …

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Jarsigner Plugin, version 1.3.

This plugin signs and verifies the project artifacts using the jarsigner tool. See the plugin´s site for more details:

This plugin is meant to supercede the existing jar:sign and jar:verify goals from the Maven Jar Plugin …

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Jarsigner

This component provides some utilities to sign/verify jars/files in your Mojos.

To use the Maven Jarsigner, add the following dependency to your project:

1<dependency>
2 <groupId>org.apache.maven.shared</groupId>
3 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Wagon, Version 2.6

The Wagon component provides communications between Maven and repositories.

Typically, to use a particular version of Wagon, you would add an 'extension' to your POM, such as:

1<extensions>
2    <extension>
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It often happens having an application and you want to show a version information in a kind of About Dialog or may be on command line as well (probably you know --version stuff).

So in relationship with Maven the question is: How to get this into your Java code.

There are in general four ways to do it:

1. Using the …

As a Java developer I always got the impression that my own code can be made better (unfortunately I am not perfect). That brought me to think about how I could improve the code.

So I thought several times about my code and while looking for example into my unit/integrations tests I found the following code snippet:

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