What we learnt in Project Creation chapter is how to create a Java application using Maven. Now we’ll see how to build and test the application.
Go to C:/MVN
directory where you’ve created your java application. Open consumerBanking
folder.You will see the POM.xml
file with following contents.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.companyname.projectgroup</groupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Here you can see, Maven already added Junit
as test framework. By default Maven adds a source file App.java
and a test file AppTest.java
in its default directory structure discussed in previous chapter.
Let’s open command console, go the C:\MVN\consumerBanking
directory and execute the following mvn command.
C:\MVN\consumerBanking>mvn clean package
Maven will start building the project.
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building consumerBanking
[INFO] task-segment: [clean, package]
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [clean:clean {execution: default-clean}]
[INFO] Deleting directory C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target
[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources,
i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\MVN\consumerBanking\src\main\
resources
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes
[INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources,
i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\MVN\consumerBanking\src\test\
resources
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
[INFO] Compiling 1 source file to C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\test-classes
[INFO] [surefire:test {execution: default-test}]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\
surefire-reports
-------------------------------------------------------
T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running com.companyname.bank.AppTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.027 sec
Results :
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO] [jar:jar {execution: default-jar}]
[INFO] Building jar: C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\
consumerBanking-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Jul 10 16:52:18 IST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 16M/89M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
You’ve built your project and created final jar file, following are the key learning concepts
- We give maven two goals, first to clean the target directory (
clean
) and then package the project build output as jar(package
). - Packaged jar is available in
consumerBanking\target
folder asconsumerBanking-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
. - Test reports are available in
consumerBanking\target\surefire-reports
folder. - Maven compiled source code file(s) and then test source code file(s).
- Then Maven run the test cases.
- Finally Maven created the package.
Now open command console, go the C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes
directory and execute the following java command.
C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes>java com.companyname.bank.App
You will see the result
Hello World!
Adding Java Source Files
Let’s see how we can add additional Java files in our project. Open C:\MVN\consumerBanking\src\main\java\com\companyname\bank
folder, create Util class in it as Util.java
.
package com.companyname.bank;
public class Util
{
public static void printMessage(String message){
System.out.println(message);
}
}
Update App class to use Util class.
package com.companyname.bank;
/**
* Hello world!
*
*/
public class App
{
public static void main( String[] args )
{
Util.printMessage("Hello World!");
}
}
Now open command console, go the C:\MVN\consumerBanking
directory and execute the following mvn command.
C:\MVN\consumerBanking>mvn clean compile
After Maven build is successful, go the C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes
directory and execute the following java command.
C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes>java -cp com.companyname.bank.App
You will see the result
`
Hello World!