Collaborating with Maven

There's far more that you can do with Maven than we could 0:00 ever cover in one workshop. 0:03 But there's one more tip I'll show you that's super useful for 0:04 collaborating with others. 0:07 When somebody joins our team, we want them to get the project up and 0:09 running on their system as quickly as possible. 0:12 Wouldn't it be nice if developers didn't have to install Maven on 0:15 their own machines to get up and running? 0:17 Well, there is a solution for that. 0:19 Borrowed from Gradle and its use of the Gradle wrapper, 0:21 there is the Maven wrapper. 0:24 To add it to your project, in your project directory, 0:26 that is in file-spy on my system, I'll say mvn -N io.takari:maven:wrapper. 0:30 This will download the wrapper and when it's done, you'll see a .mvn directory as 0:37 well as an mvnw and an mvnw.cmd file which are the executables for 0:41 Unix based systems and Windows systems respectively. 0:47 So let me show you what that looks like, tree -P and 0:51 let's just look for *mvn* items. 0:56 Let's --prune the tree and there we go, we get an mvnw and an mvnw.cmd. 0:59 Now you can commit these new additions to your repository like Git. 1:07 So that when a new developer joins the team, they can simply run mvnw package, 1:11 for example, all without installing Maven on their own machines. 1:15 All right, that's all for now. 1:19 Thanks for hanging with me today to learn the most widely used build tool 1:21 in the Java market. 1:24