How-to articles, tricks, and solutions about MAVEN

There could be several reasons why you are getting the error "Could not resolve archetype" when trying to create a Maven project in Eclipse.

To load a file from the resource folder in a Java application, you can use the ClassLoader and getResourceAsStream method.

To tell Maven to use the latest version of a dependency, you can use the [RELEASE] or [LATEST] version range in the <version> element of the dependency in your pom.xml file.

To add a local JAR file to a Maven project, you can use the maven-install-plugin. Here's how you can do it:

To set a specific Java version for Maven, you can specify the maven.compiler.source and maven.compiler.target properties in the pom.xml file.

To import Maven dependencies in IntelliJ IDEA, you can follow these steps:

There are a few possible reasons why IntelliJ might show a "Cannot resolve symbol" error while still being able to compile your code.

To package/install a Maven project without running the tests, you can use the maven-install-plugin and specify the skipTests property as true.

There are several possible reasons why Maven plugins might not be found in IntelliJ:

This error message means that the Java compiler (javac) is not available in the current environment. This can happen if you are running a Java program from a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) rather than a Java Development Kit (JDK).

To run a single test method with Maven, you can use the surefire:test goal and specify the fully-qualified name of the test class and the method name using the test and method properties, respectively.

This error typically occurs when you are trying to use the HttpServlet class in a Java project, but the necessary libraries are not included in the project's classpath. To fix this error, you need to add the servlet-api.jar library to your project's class

A Maven snapshot is a version of a Maven artifact that is under active development and has not been released yet.