How many times have you found yourself in a situation where you can’t tell if the artifacts used by the application are the correct ones or not? How many times have you looked at a bug report stating that the problem is caused by version X of a particular artifact but you are certain the bug was fixed in said release? On closer inspection (after unpacking, debugging, even decompiling!) you find that the artifact in production is not the right one even though the version appears to be the correct one. One option we have to mitigate this problem is Read More
Tag: maven
Maven scopes vs. Gradle configurations
Both Maven and Gradle are popular choices when it comes to building Java projects. These tools share common traits but there are some key differences that make you more productive depending on a particular scenario (no, I’m not referring to the XML DSL vs. Groovy/Kotlin DSL schism), case in point scopes vs. configurations. Scopes and configurations are used by each tool to define dependencies and how they affect different classpaths, such as the compilation and runtime classpaths. Maven defines 6 scopes: compile, runtime, provided, system, test, and import. Gradle on the other hand defines the following configurations when the Java Read More