Marian's Java Bill Of Materials

This is a bill of materials (BOM) suitable for most OpenSource Java projects as Maven parent pom using Java 8. There is no Java 9+ support at the moment.

It configures:

• The Maven Java compiler plugin to a certain version, e.g. 8 (1.8)
• Takes care that all dependencies have maximum byte code compatible transitive dependencies of certain version e.g. 8 (1.8)
• Checks that all transitive dependencies resolves to common version and forces the developer to declare it e.g. inside the dependency management.
• Adds the Maven information such as name and ids such as artifact id and group id to the Java's jar manifest file
• Creates additional jar files for source and JavaDoc as required by Maven Central for easy access of the source code by IDEs such as Eclipse or IDEA
• Provides JUnit 5 as unit test engine with support for JUnit 3 and JUnit 4 tests so that all unit tests of JUnit 3, 4 and 5 can run at the same time
• Adds *Mockito, AssertJ and Hamcrest support for unit tests

How to add to your Maven project

Just reference the BOM as the parent POM in your project's pom.xml:

<project>
	
	<parent>
		<groupId>com.github.zaplatynski</groupId>
		<artifactId>java-bom</artifactId>
		<version>1.1.2</version>
	</parent>
	
	...
	
</project>

How to modify a version such as the Java version

All versions are stored inside properties for easy adaption e.g. use Java 7 instead of 8:

<project>
	
	<parent>
		<groupId>com.github.zaplatynski</groupId>
		<artifactId>java-bom</artifactId>
		<version>1.1.2</version>
	</parent>
	
	...
	
	<properties>
		<java.version>1.7</java.version>
	</properties>
	
	...
	
</project>