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Exclude *target* directory from the maven-checkstyle-plugin scan

I am using Apache Maven Checkstyle plugin in my pom.xml.
I am trying to exclude the target directory from the check style scan but no luck so far. Here is the pom code i am trying.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>checkstyle-check</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<configLocation>checkstyles.xml</configLocation>
<failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
<failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
<consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
<includes>**\/*.java,**\/*.groovy</includes>
<excludes>**WHAT GOES HERE TO EXCLUDE THE TARGET DIRECTORY**</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>

In Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin version 3 to specify the location of the source directories we have to use sourceDirectories parameter. Then we can specify only directories of application/library and test sources to be used for Checkstyle:
<sourceDirectories>
<sourceDirectory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</sourceDirectory>
<sourceDirectory>${project.build.testSourceDirectory}</sourceDirectory>
</sourceDirectories>
Now only src/main/java and src/test/java will be analysed.
Here is my full working example:
<!-- Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin (checks Java code adheres to a coding standard) -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven-checkstyle-plugin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<sourceDirectories>
<sourceDirectory>${project.build.sourceDirectory}</sourceDirectory>
<sourceDirectory>${project.build.testSourceDirectory}</sourceDirectory>
</sourceDirectories>
<!-- relates to https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/blob/master/src/main/resources/google_checks.xml -->
<configLocation>/src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
</configuration>
</plugin>

<excludes>**/generated/**/*</excludes>
This will remove the generated files from the plugin.

Converting maven project that uses plugins to a gradle project

I'm new with Gradle and confused to change maven code to gradle, I get code from ApacheKarafCookbook and want to use gradle as build tool. I tried use gradle init and its not working.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.7.0.201403182114</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>prepare-agent-integration</id>
<goals>
<goal>prepare-agent-integration</goal>
</goals>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<propertyName>jcoverage.command</propertyName>
<includes>
<include>com.packt.*</include>
</includes>
<append>true</append>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>report</id>
<goals>
<goal>report-integration</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
How do I change to gradle?

gradle init will not do auto conversion of maven plugins, phases and targets. You'll have to do that bit by hand. Here's some documentation on how to setup and use the gradle jacoco plugin.

How to execute a plugin explicitly after a certain phase in maven?

I'm using javafx-maven plugin to create a javafx webstart application. I had some issues signing the jar files with the javafx-maven plugin. what I want to do is, package(jar) the application with javafx-maven plugin and then sign the jar files using maven-jarsigner-plugin .
How do i execute the maven-jarsigner-plugin to sign my files after the application is packaged?
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jarsigner-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>sign</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<archiveDirectory>target/jfx/app/</archiveDirectory>
<includes>
<include>**/*.jar</include>
</includes>
<keystore>path tp keystore</keystore>
<alias>alias</alias>
<storepass>password</storepass>
<keypass>password</keypass>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>8.3.0</version>
<configuration>
<bundler>jnlp</bundler>
<mainClass>com.myorg.myapp.launcher.myappLauncher</mainClass>
<bundleArguments>
<jnlp.allPermisions>true</jnlp.allPermisions>
<jnlp.includeDT>true</jnlp.includeDT>
<jnlp.outfile>myapp</jnlp.outfile>
</bundleArguments>
</configuration>
</plugin>

To workaround this I moved signing to verify phase.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jarsigner-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>signing</id>
<goals>
<goal>sign</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
<phase>verify</phase>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<configuration>
...
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Then I invoke maven like this:
mvn verify
Or make verify your default goal
Alternatively you can move javafx-maven plugin to the "prepare-package" phase:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.zenjava</groupId>
<artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>8.1.0</version>
<configuration>
<bundler>jnlp</bundler>
<mainClass>com.myorg.myapp.launcher.myappLauncher</mainClass>
<bundleArguments>
<jnlp.allPermisions>true</jnlp.allPermisions>
<jnlp.includeDT>true</jnlp.includeDT>
<jnlp.outfile>myapp</jnlp.outfile>
</bundleArguments>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>create-jfxjar</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>build-jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Problems running JBehave with Maven

I am trying to get a JBehave story to execute in Maven it is completely ignoring the JBehave plugin. I've spent several hours using different configurations but it looks like the plugin isn't being executed at all. Any recommendations/tips would be appreciated!
All my JBehave classes live in:
src/at/java
Relevant parts of my pom.xml:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-test-source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-test-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>src/at/java</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jbehave</groupId>
<artifactId>jbehave-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>run-stories-as-embeddables</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>**/*.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run-stories-as-embeddables</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.11</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>integration-test</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<skip>false</skip>
<includes>
<include>**/*.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Best is to change the location of your test classes to src/test/java and change the name of the stories based on the documentation of JBehave.

JBehave running with maven follow the Maven rules for location of code and text artifacts.
For test scope you must put them in src/test/java and src/test/resources. For compile scopes is src/main/java and src/main/resources.
With JBehave with maven you could use two scopes (test or compile), you just need to set which one you want in the plugin configuration, so you choose where to put your artifacts. it defaults to compile.
In your case you are adding a new test source so you must set the scope to test:
see detail here.

Maybe the jbehave-maven-plugin could not find the compiled test classes (scenarios) because it looks in the wrong classpath.
Please look at your target directory and search the embeddable classes -> target/classes or target/test-classes?
To solve the problem i must set the scope of jbehave-maven-plugin to test in the configuration of my project pom.xml.
here is a example
<plugin>
<groupId>org.jbehave</groupId>
<artifactId>jbehave-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>run-stories-as-embeddables</id>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run-stories-as-embeddables</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<scope>test</scope>
<includes>
<include>**/*Scenarios.java</include>
</includes>
<ignoreFailureInStories>true</ignoreFailureInStories>
<ignoreFailureInView>false</ignoreFailureInView>
</configuration>
</execution>

Place all libraries and files for a project in one folder

I use maven in my java build process. The following is a snippet of code that creates an single jar with all dependencies. In order to reduce the data transfer on small changes to the build I'd like to place all project files (including dependencies) in the folder target/build . I plan to rsync the folder with the remote machine running the app and run the app with:
java -cp target/build/* <classname>
How do I modify this snippet to achieve this? I've read the documentation here but don't know how to piece the fix together:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/descriptor-refs.html
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<descriptorRefs>
<descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
</descriptorRefs>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>make-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Are you asking how to get maven to copy your dependencies to the target folder when you build?
I think you want the maven dependency plugin. It copies the dependencies of your project to an output folder you specify.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>install</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${targetDirectory}</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
It sounds like you may also need to maven jar plugin to tell it where to package your jar to.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${dir}</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>

Use the maven dependency plugin
It has the gole: copy-dependencies. This should do what you want.
Example (take from the documentation)
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-dependencies</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation</outputDirectory>
<overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
<overWriteSnapshots>false</overWriteSnapshots>
<overWriteIfNewer>true</overWriteIfNewer>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
</project>