Maven plugin¶

The Maven plugin builds Java projects using the Maven build tool.

After a successful build, this plugin will:

Create bin/ and jar/ directories in $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL.
Find the java executable provided by the part and link it as $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/bin/java.
Hard link the .jar files generated in $CRAFT_PART_SOURCE to $CRAFT_PART_INSTALL/jar.

Keywords¶

In addition to the common plugin and sources keywords, this plugin provides the following plugin-specific keywords:

maven-parameters¶

Type: list of strings

Used to add additional parameters to the mvn package command line.

Environment variables¶

This plugin reads the http_proxy and https_proxy variables from the environment to configure Maven proxy access. A comma-separated list of hosts that should not be accessed via proxy is read from the no_proxy environment variable.

Please refer to Configuring Apache Maven for a list of environment variables used to configure Maven.

Dependencies¶

The plugin expects Maven to be available on the system as the mvn executable, unless a part named maven-deps is defined. In this case, the plugin will assume that this part will stage the mvn executable to be used in the build step.

Note that the Maven plugin does not make a Java runtime available in the target environment. In Snapcraft, the developer must stage the appropriate packages in order to be able to execute the application (unless the Java runtime is provided by a content snap).

Example¶

This is an example of a Snapcraft part using the Maven plugin. Note that the Maven and Java Runtime packages are listed as build packages, and the Java Runtime is staged to be part of the final payload:

mkpass:
  plugin: maven
  source: .
  build-packages:
    - openjdk-11-jre-headless
    - maven
  stage-packages:
    - openjdk-11-jre-headless