The Loving Iron Fist of Maven

JUnit is a unit testing framework to write and run repeatable automated tests on Java. It provides a robust environment to write, organize, and execute automated tests, ensuring code reliability and repeatability.

The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project.

The Maven Source Plugin creates a JAR archive of the source files of the current project.

The Apache Maven Javadoc Plugin is a plugin that uses the javadoc tool for generating javadocs for the specified project.

Builds a Java Archive (JAR) file from the compiled project classes and resources.

Signs the project artifacts with GnuPG.

General data-binding functionality for Jackson: works on core streaming API

The Apache Commons IO library contains utility classes, stream implementations, file filters, file comparators, endian transformation classes, and much more.

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work.

A Maven plugin to create archives of your project's sources, classes, dependencies etc. from flexible assembly descriptors.