I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of the PomChecker suite version 1.1.0! PomChecker is a small utility that can verify if a POM or BOM file complies with the minimum requirements for being uploaded to Maven Central. I wrote this utility to reduce the chance of getting an error when uploading artifacts to Maven Central due to invalid or missing information in a given POM. There are no changes in behavior compared to version 1.0.0 however there are now three more options at your disposal for checking the validity of a POM file.
The new options include:
- Running as a standalone Java application. You can download a .zip or .tar.gz from the release page or install it via SDKMAN!.
- Running as a ToolProvider implementation. This is the preferred way to add behavior to Bach builds. Bach supports the latest version of PomChecker.
- Running as a Gradle plugin. All generated POMs will be automatically checked (included BOMs if configured as such).
Of course the previous options remain available:
- Apply it as an enforcer rule with the maven-enforcer-plugin.
- Apply it as a plugin on your Maven build.
- Run it as an external Maven plugin on a POM file.
Use any of these options to check if your POMs comply with the minimum set of POM elements required for uploading to Maven Central. Don't wait until uploading to a staging repository to check if that's the case, do it early with PomChecker! If none of these options are suitable to your needs or if you happen to use a different tool it may be the case that embedding pomchecker-core is enough or perhaps tighter integration may be needed; by all means reach out and file a ticket.
Keep on coding!
