Traditional Java applications capture runtime variables in property files, then package them into individual JARs for various software environments. But for users of Maven, it could make better sense ...

It is an excellent and widely used best practice to tag each of your stable releases in your version control system for future reference. However, this sort of bookkeeping is tedious and error-prone ...

Automated deployment of WAR files to Tomcat with Maven is a surprisingly straightforward task. If you have Maven and Tomcat installed, use a Maven project object model (POM) to describe the structure ...

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