The Up-To-Date Maven Plugin.

Force using of up-to-date dependencies/parents

License	Apache License 2.0
Categories	Maven Build Tools
GroupId	com.soebes.maven.plugins
ArtifactId	uptodate-maven-plugin
Last Version	0.2.0
Release Date	Mar 29, 2015
Type	maven-plugin
Description	The Up-To-Date Maven Plugin. Force using of up-to-date dependencies/parents
Project Organization	SoftwareEntwicklung Beratung Schulung
Source Code Management	https://github.com/khmarbaise/uptodate-maven-plugin

Download uptodate-maven-plugin

Filename	Size
uptodate-maven-plugin-0.2.0.pom
uptodate-maven-plugin-0.2.0.jar	13 KB
uptodate-maven-plugin-0.2.0-sources.jar	7 KB
uptodate-maven-plugin-0.2.0-javadoc.jar	51 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.soebes.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>uptodate-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
</plugin>

Dependencies

compile (5)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven : maven-core	jar	3.1.1
org.apache.maven : maven-artifact	jar	3.1.1
org.apache.maven.plugins : maven-plugin-plugin	jar	3.3
org.eclipse.aether : aether-api	jar	1.0.0.v20140518
org.eclipse.aether : aether-util	jar	1.0.0.v20140518

provided (2)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools : maven-plugin-annotations	jar	3.3
org.apache.maven : maven-plugin-api	jar	3.1.1

test (3)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
org.testng : testng	jar	6.8.8
org.easytesting : fest-assert	jar	1.4
org.mockito : mockito-core	jar	1.9.5

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

UpToDate-Maven-Plugin

License

Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

Overview

Force the use of the most up-to-date released versions of an artifact.

The Basic idea for this plugin was born based on the discussion about the enforcer rule.

Sometimes you have a situation like using a parent pom but you would like to force the users in your company to use the newest version cause there had been changes which need for further development. This plugin can help in such situations.

Parent Check

The following pom snippet will show an example of a usual project which is using a parent:

<parent>
  <groupId>com.soebes.maven.plugins.test.integration</groupId>
  <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
  <version>0.2</version>
</parent>

<groupId>org.test.parent</groupId>
<artifactId>root</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

So basically no problem at all. But what happens if a new version of that parent is released and you want to force people to use that new version? Simply you add the following definition to your project:

So every time you try to build this plugin will check if the parent is the newest version.

 <plugin>
   <groupId>com.soebes.maven.plugins</groupId>
   <artifactId>uptodate-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <executions>
     <execution>
       <id>force-updrage</id>
       <goals>
         <goal>parent</goal>
       </goals>
       <phase>validate</phase>
     </execution>
   </executions>
 </plugin>

If it is not the newest version it will break the build. Furtunate you can skip that breaking by using the following property on command if you really need.

mvn -Duptodate.skip=true ...

Dependency Check

Default checking all dependencies of the current module if they are up-to-date.

Lets assume you have the following dependency in your pom:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.xyz.test</groupId>  
  <artifactId>the-artifact</artifact>
  <version>1.3</version>
</dependency>

Sometime you must be sure to use always the newest version which is available.

Using the uptodate-maven-plugin will exactly check this situation.

If you need to check the parent of a parent to be always uptodate you could use the parent goal:

 <plugins>
   <plugin>
     <groupId>com.soebes.maven.plugins</groupId>
     <artifactId>uptodate-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <executions>
       <execution>
         <id>check-dependencies</id>
         <goals>
           <goal>dependency</goal>
         </goals>
         <phase>validate</phase>
       </execution>
     </executions>
   </plugin>
   ..
 </plugins>

Versions

Version
0.2.0 Mar 29, 2015
0.1.0 Aug 17, 2014