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Maven in eclipse or windows

I'm planning to create a java maven web project. I would like to know whether I have to install Maven in windows or install maven in eclipse? I'm using windows 10 and eclipse oxygen. My network has some restrictions so I would be adding a proxy in settings.xml.
I have already tried creating a maven project in eclipse with maven embedded in my eclipse, but it was giving multiple errors during jars download.
Please suggest me on which way I should proceed and which way is better, whether I should use maven in eclipse or install in windows and use?

Usually, you use the embedded Maven in Eclipse, which is part of a standard modern Eclipse installation.
If you get errors with jar downloads, this is probably an issue with your network. Whether putting a proxy in the settings.xml is enough to remedy the problem depends on you actual network.
To find out the exact network restrictions, talk to your admin.

I think you should just try use a different network to create your maven project (for example you can use tethering or ask for permission to get around those network restrictions). After that you should be able to use your maven project even offline.
An alternative would be to just download a maven project and change it to your own.

You can try installing maven:
Go to maven's website to install/configure maven for your os
Set Maven's settings.xml
Configure Maven in your eclipse, choose the installed maven rather than embedded
If your have any errors, please post them here.

Appium Maven tests with Travis CI tool

I am kind of struggling with transitioning from Jenkins to Travis-CI. Running an Appium (or consider it Selenium) project that is built using Maven. I am not sure what really should go into the travis.yml file. From what I have been told I need to do a before_install, before_script, and script, and after (after not sure). Could someone please be nice of kind enough to paste a travis.yml that was created for Java Maven project.
Also not sure I will get the test running on a physical device for a tool that is hosted on the Cloud. For Jenkins all we would do is hook up the device to the master/slave.

Automatic Jenkins deployment in websphere

i need to deploy ear/war file from svn to websphere using jenkins job ?
i have different environment. By using svn tag name and environment details i need to do deploy in different environment websphere.
can any one suggest me how will i achieve this ?

This might help you with the second part of your question. This is a plugin to deploy jenkins artifacts on
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/WebSphere+Deployer+Plugin

I have tried to do this by jenkins plugin, but it works bad. It can not support multiply node and the ssl management is also boring.
So i sujest you use the ant shell in the target machine for deployment.

Heroku: Java/Maven build requires NodeJS

I've got a Java web application that builds with Maven. My project uses RequireJS. I use a maven plugin at build time to compress the JS artifacts (https://github.com/bringking/requirejs-maven-plugin). The plugin calls out to NodeJS (with the r.js compressor) to do the actual work.
Local builds work wonderfully.
On Heroku, however, NodeJS is not available using the Heroku Java buildpack (the default for Java/Maven applications).
For now, I run the requireJS maven plugin locally using an active Maven profile that isn't present on the Heroku server. This prevents the RequireJS plugin from running on the Heroku server. This is less than ideal because it requires me to run the plugin locally, then check in the resulting build artifact. It's far better to generate the compressed JS file at build time in the Heroku system.
I'm looking for a good solution. Thanks in advance.

The best solution is to use Heroku Multi Buildpack with the Node.js and Java buildpacks. This is described in an article using Grunt with Java and Maven but the same principles apply for Require.js.

Managing Maven project in Eclipse with git repository

we recently migrated to Maven Build manager & git hub repository for our Java web-app. Also i switched to eclipse as eclipse has good set of plugins.
As a new bie, i am simply running mvn clean package from terminal at the code root directory. And then moving the compiled code i.e., /target/SNAPSHOT/* to tomcat/webapps/ROOT location.
And then starting Tomcat7 server. The process is time taking especially when i do code changes in Java & configuration .xml files.
I want to do it completely in IDE environment as i did earlier in Netbeans, update code -> build and run in debug mode, -> do code changes and then commit.
Heard of egit & m2e in eclipse for maven & github integration, but not sure how to use it.
Please walk me through the steps required in doing so. I am completely new to eclipse.
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Thanks

You might want to consider using maven-jetty-plugin http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Maven+Jetty+Plugin for running the webapp. You will not need to copy over stuff to tomcat. After configuring this plugin, you can simply run your application by doing mvn jetty:run
I generally do not like running webapps inside Eclipse. It's a personal prefrence, but it is always nice to have an IDE neutral way of building and running your applications. If you have m2e things should work simply fine. I have seen maven-jetty-plugin having hot pluggability where if you changed your web.xml, jetty would reload your application.

We use Git for version control and Maven for dependency management and build automation. Once your project has successfully imported into Eclipse and recognized as a valid java web project, you don't need either Git or Maven in order to build/run it inside IDE. Just creat a server using you existing tomcat installation, add the project to server, then select Run as > Run on Server.
The Complete Guide:
Creating a server
Adding projects to a server
Starting a server
For more details, check out Testing and publishing on your server.