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Mastering Apache Maven 3
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Mastering Apache Maven 3

by Prabath Siriwardena
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Avoid using un-versioned plugins

If you have associated a plugin with your application POM, without a version, then Maven will download the corresponding maven-metadata.xml file and store it locally. Only the latest released version of the plugin will be downloaded and used in the project. This can easily create certain uncertainties. Your project might work fine with the current version of a plugin, but later if there is a new release of the same plugin, your Maven project will start to use the latest one automatically. This can result in unpredictable behaviors and lead to a debugging mess.

It is always recommended that you specify the plugin version along with the plugin configuration. You can enforce this as a rule, with the Maven enforcer ...

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