Maven Best Practices Guidelines

This guide summarizes my personal best practices I have collected and developed in using Apache Maven 3 in real projects. I decided to put them all together to be able to reference them and to easily share them with colleagues and friends, without repeating myself over and over. Now I am able to share them via a simple hyperlink.

I hope, dear reader, if you find them, you can find something useful for you.

Currently, this guide covers only Apache Maven 3. Maven 4 is currently under development and hasn’t been released yet. As soon as I have gathered enough knowledge about Maven 4, I will update and extend this guide.

List of Best Practices

  1. Always prefix your custom Maven Properties

  2. Don’t abuse Maven

  3. Keep your Dependencies up to date

  4. Choose a Project Name and a Project Prefix