VersionEye Maven Plugin 3.9.1

VersionEye Maven Plugin 3.9.1 is out and it has a lot of new features!

Out-dated dependencies

Now the Mavne golas mvn versioneye:create and mvn versioneye:update output the out-dated dependencies directly in the console. Like in this example:

ignoreDependencyManagement

This new configuration option can be used to ignore dependencies which are defined in the dependencyManagement section of the pom.xml. By default the value of this switch is false. That means by default the dependencies which are defined in the dependencyManagement section of the pom.xml are processed and send to the server. If you don’t want that, just set the switch to false!

API Key

The way how the API key is fetched was completely refactored! Now it’s possible to keep the API key in the environment variable VERSIONEYE_API_KEY. That is specially useful for setups on a central build server like Jenkins for example!

The plugin will look for the API Key at this places in that order:

• Environment variable VERSIONEYE_API_KEY
• ~/.m2/versioneye.properties
• src/qa/resources/versioneye.properties
• src/main/resources/versioneye.properties
• pom.xml file

That means if the environment variable VERSIONEYE_API_KEY is set, it can be overwritten by the~/.m2/versioneye.properties file. And that can be overwritten by the settings insrc/qa/resources/versioneye.properties and so on.

Proxy Settings

Until now the proxy settings could be configured directly in the pom.xml file in the plugin configuration part. Now the configuration for the proxy can be placed at ~/.m2/versioneye.properties as well. That way it’s centralised and not all projects need to configure it on their own. Just put the proxy settings into the ~/.m2/versioneye.properties file like this:

proxyHost=PROXY_HOST
proxyPort=PROXY_PORT
proxyUser=PROXY_USER
proxyPassword=PROXY_PASSWORD

If a project configures the proxy in the pom.xml in the configuration part of the plugin, that values are taken for that project. But otherwise the plugin will look for proxy settings at~/.m2/versioneye.properties.

mvn versioneye:delete

Now there is new goal for deleting a project from the server.

mvn versioneye:delete

The goal above will delete the project and all it’s modules from the VersionEye server and also remove alle versioneye.properties files from the source code. That is specially handy for big Java projects with many modules!